The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 38

He turned a page, and there was an excellent smell of a savoury dinner, and one of the figures who sat at the feast looked at him and said:

Who acts: prince, figures, one · What happens: turn, be, sit, look, say · To what, where: page, excellent smell, feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, figures, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 page	det
4	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smell	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 smell	det
10	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smell	amod
11	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 dinner	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dinner	det
14	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dinner	amod
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smell	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 looked	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 figures	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 figures	det
21	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 figures	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 feast	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 feast	det
26	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looked	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	prince	a page			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent page=Theme
2	is a	past		a excellent smell		of a savoury dinner	tree rules
3	sit	past	the figures		the feast		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location
4	look	past	one of the figures			at prince	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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