The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 73

While he was eating, the damsel and her maids took their lutes, and sang and danced to him, and altogether the hours passed so swiftly that the old man never saw that darkness had come, or remembered the scolding he would get from his wife for returning home so late.

Who acts: maiden, damsel, hours, old man, darkness, man · What happens: eat, take, sing, dance, pass, not see · To what, where: lutes, maiden, scolding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, damsel, hours, old man), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 took	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 damsel	det
7	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 maids	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 maids	nmod:poss
10	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 damsel	conj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lutes	nmod:poss
13	lutes	lute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 danced	cc
18	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sang	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 danced	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 passed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 passed	cc
23	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	26 passed	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hours	det
25	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 passed	nsubj
26	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	parataxis
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 swiftly	advmod
28	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	26 passed	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 saw	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 saw	advmod
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 passed	advcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
36	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 come	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
38	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 saw	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 remembered	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 remembered	cc
41	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 passed	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 scolding	det
43	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 remembered	obj
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 get	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 get	aux
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 remembered	ccomp
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 wife	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 wife	nmod:poss
49	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
50	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 returning	mark
51	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 get	advcl
52	home	home	ADV	_	51 returning	advmod
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 late	advmod
54	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 returning	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	maiden				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the damsel and life's maids	damsel's lutes			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lute=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the damsel and life's maids not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	the damsel and life's maids not said here		maiden		vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	past	the hours			altogether, swiftly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not see	past	the old man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	come	past · perfect	darkness				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	remember	past	the hours not said here	the scolding			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent scolding=Theme clause=Attribute
9	get	would	man			from maiden's wife	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from wife=Destination
10	return	gerund	man not said here			home, late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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