The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 53

At length a servant arrived and led him up into a beautiful room filled with people, who were either playing on musical instruments or talking in a lively manner, which astonished the king, who stood silently listening, and not at all pleased at the want of attention paid him.

Who acts: servant, people, lively manner, king · What happens: arrive, lead up, fill, play, talk, astonish · To what, where: length, servant, beautiful room, musical instruments, lively manner, king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, people, lively manner, king), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 led	cc
7	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 led	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 led	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
14	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 room	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 people	case
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 filled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 playing	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 playing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 playing	aux
20	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 playing	advmod
21	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 people	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 instruments	case
23	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 instruments	amod
24	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 playing	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 talking	cc
26	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 playing	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 manner	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 manner	det
29	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 manner	amod
30	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 talking	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 astonished	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 astonished	nsubj
33	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 manner	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 astonished	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stood	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 stood	nsubj
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 king	acl:relcl
39	silently	silently	ADV	_	40 listening	advmod
40	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 stood	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 pleased	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 pleased	cc
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 pleased	advmod
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 all	case
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 pleased	obl
46	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 paid	advcl
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 want	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 want	det
49	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pleased	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 attention	case
51	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 want	nmod
52	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 paid	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	a servant		length		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lead up	past	a servant not said here	servant	a beautiful room		tree rules
3	fill	participle		a beautiful room not said here		with people	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument
4	play	past · progressive	people		musical instruments	either property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	talk	gerund	people not said here		a lively manner		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	astonish	past	a lively manner	the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
7	stand	past	the king				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	listen	gerund	the king not said here			silently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	pay	past	a servant not said here	king			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
10	want			attention			nom want «state transitive»: of=patient

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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