The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 94

And forthwith she was conducted into the golden presence chamber, where, leaning back amongst cushions of royal purple, the King sat, surrounded by his counsellors and courtiers.

Who acts: King · What happens: conduct, lean back, sit, surround · To what, where: woman, golden presence chamber, cushions

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 conducted	cc
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	5 conducted	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 conducted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conducted	aux:pass
5	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 chamber	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chamber	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chamber	amod
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chamber	compound
10	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conducted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 where	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 chamber	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leaning	punct
14	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 conducted	advcl
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 leaning	advmod
16	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	17 cushions	case
17	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 leaning	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 purple	case
19	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 purple	amod
20	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cushions	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conducted	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 surrounded	punct
26	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sat	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 counsellors	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 counsellors	nmod:poss
29	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 surrounded	obl:agent
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 courtiers	cc
31	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 counsellors	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 conducted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	conduct	past · passive		woman	the golden presence chamber	forthwith property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into chamber=Destination
2	lean back	gerund			cushions of royal purple		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst cushion=Location
3	sit	past	the King				tree rules
4	surround	participle	the King not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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