The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 81

In the centre of the great hall where the Emperor sat was a golden perch, on which the Nightingale sat. The whole Court was there, and the little kitchenmaid was allowed to stand behind the door, now that she was a Court-cook.

Who acts: Emperor, centre, Nightingale sat., little kitchenmaid, Court · What happens: sit, be, allow, stand · To what, where: golden perch, little kitchenmaid, door, Court cook

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, centre, Nightingale sat., little kitchenmaid), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 perch	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 centre	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sat	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Emperor	det
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hall	acl:relcl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 perch	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 perch	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 perch	amod
15	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 there	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 there	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sat.	det
20	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 sat.	compound
21	sat.	Saturday	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	26 there	nsubj
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Court	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Court	amod
24	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 there	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 there	cop
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 perch	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 allowed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 allowed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kitchenmaid	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 kitchenmaid	amod
31	kitchenmaid	kitchenmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 allowed	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 allowed	aux:pass
33	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 there	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 stand	mark
35	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 allowed	xcomp
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 door	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 door	det
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stand	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cook	punct
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 cook	advmod
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 cook	mark
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 cook	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 cook	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 cook	det
45	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cook	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 Court	punct
47	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stand	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 perch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Emperor					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the centre of the great hall	a golden perch				tree rules
3	is	past	the Nightingale sat.		a golden perch		there property	tree rules
4	allow	past · passive		the little kitchenmaid				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little kitchenmaid not said here		the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location
6	is a	past	Court	a Court cook		now		tree rules

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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