The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 34

So the lute player stayed on in the palace and sang and played almost all day long to the king, who could never tire of listening and almost forgot to eat or drink or to torment people.

Who acts: lute player, king · What happens: stay on, sing, play, not tire, forget, not eat · To what, where: palace, people

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lute player, king), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 player	det
3	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 player	compound
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 stayed	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sang	cc
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 played	cc
13	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 all	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 played	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tire	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tire	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tire	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 tire	advmod
25	tire	tire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 king	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 listening	case
27	listening	listening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tire	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 forgot	cc
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 forgot	advmod
30	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tire	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 forgot	xcomp
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 drink	cc
34	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 eat	conj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 torment	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 torment	mark
37	torment	torment	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 eat	conj
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 torment	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay on	past	the lute player		the palace			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
2	sing speech: express	past	the lute player not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	past	the lute player not said here			day	to the king; long property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not tire	could	the king				of listening	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	forget	past	the king not said here				almost property	tree rules
6	not eat	to-infinitive	the king not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	infinitive	the king not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	torment	to-infinitive	the king not said here	people				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

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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