The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 79

They were served by maidens dressed in white, whose feet made no sound as they moved about, and not a word was spoken during the meal.

Who acts: maidens, feet, chairs · What happens: serve, dress, make, move about, speak · To what, where: chairs, maidens, white, sound, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, feet, chairs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 served	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 served	aux:pass
3	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 maidens	case
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 served	obl
6	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 maidens	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 white	case
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 served	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 sound	det
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 moved	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 moved	nsubj
17	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	advcl
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 moved	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spoken	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spoken	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 word	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoken	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 spoken	aux:pass
25	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 served	parataxis
26	during	during	ADP	_	28 meal	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 meal	det
28	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoken	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 served	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past · passive	maidens	chairs = chair				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute
2	dress	participle		maidens not said here	white			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	feet	no sound				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
4	move about	past	chairs = chair				about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past · passive		a word		during the meal		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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