The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 12

The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing ‘Here comes a duke a-riding’ with her ladies-in-waiting.

Who acts: Emperor, melodies, Princess · What happens: have, bring, play, come · To what, where: melodies, Emperor, great hall, duke, waiting

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, melodies, Princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hall	amod
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 playing	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 playing	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 playing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 playing	aux
17	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hall	parataxis
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
19	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 comes	advmod
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 playing	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 duke	det
22	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 riding	det
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 riding	punct
25	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 duke	appos
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 riding	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 ladies	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ladies	nmod:poss
29	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 riding	nmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 waiting	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 waiting	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 in	punct
33	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the Emperor	melodies = melody			tree rules
2	bring	participle	melodies = melody not said here		Emperor	the great hall	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
3	play	past · progressive	the Princess				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present		a duke		waiting; here	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duke=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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