The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 120

As he was speaking, the duke’s valet came to say that his highness was ready for luncheon, and it was served at once in silver dishes.

Who acts: master, valet, highness · What happens: speak, come, say, be, serve · To what, where: highness, silver dishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, valet, highness), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 speaking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speaking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	aux
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duke	det
7	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 valet	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 duke	case
9	valet	valet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 ready	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 highness	nmod:poss
15	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ready	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	cop
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 luncheon	case
19	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ready	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 served	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 served	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 served	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 served	aux:pass
24	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 served	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 dishes	case
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dishes	compound
29	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 served	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	master				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the duke's valet				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the duke's valet not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	master's highness			for luncheon; ready property	tree rules
5	serve	past · passive		highness	silver dishes		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in dish=Location

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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