The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 71

They entered a large hall, where four and twenty richly dressed women were sitting round a table, looking as if they were about to attend a wedding.

Who acts: scales, four dressed women · What happens: enter, dress, sit, look, be, attend · To what, where: large hall, wedding

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scales, four dressed women), 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	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hall	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hall	amod
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 sitting	advmod
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 women	nummod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 twenty	cc
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 four	conj
11	richly	richly	ADV	_	12 dressed	advmod
12	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sitting	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 entered	advcl
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sitting	advcl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 about	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 about	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 about	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 about	cop
25	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looking	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 attend	mark
27	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 about	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wedding	det
29	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 attend	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	scales = scale	a large hall		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
2	dress	participle			richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past · progressive	four dressed women		round a table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund	four dressed women not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	scales = scale		about property	tree rules
6	attend	to-infinitive	scales = scale not said here	a wedding		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wedding=Goal

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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