The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

When the prince had ridden some distance he came to an inn, in which there were many guests, all of whom were merry, and drank and sang and played at dice.

Who acts: king, many guests, all · What happens: ride, come, be, drink, sing, play · To what, where: prince, inn, dice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, many guests, all), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 ridden	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridden	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ridden	aux
5	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 came	advcl
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ridden	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 inn	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 inn	det
12	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 were	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 guests	amod
19	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 were	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 merry	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 merry	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 merry	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 merry	cop
25	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 guests	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drank	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drank	cc
28	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sang	cc
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 drank	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 played	cc
32	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 drank	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 dice	case
34	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 played	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect · passive		the prince			tree rules
2	come	past	king		a inn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
3	be	past	many guests		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	is	past	all			merry property	tree rules
5	drink	past					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	past					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	play	past			dice		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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