The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 101

The invited guests were already thronging round the table, when the head cook entered the room, bearing a beautiful wedding cake on a silver dish, and laid it before Prince Milan.

Who acts: invited guests, head cook · What happens: invite, throng, enter, bear, lay · To what, where: room, beautiful wedding cake, silver dish, cake

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invited guests, head cook), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guests	det
2	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 guests	amod
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thronging	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thronging	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 thronging	advmod
6	thronging	throng	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thronging	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 entered	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 entered	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cook	compound
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	nsubj
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thronging	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bearing	punct
19	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 entered	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cake	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cake	amod
22	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cake	compound
23	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bearing	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 dish	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dish	det
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dish	compound
27	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cake	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 laid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 laid	cc
30	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 entered	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 laid	obj
32	before	before	ADP	_	34 Milan	case
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Milan	compound
34	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 laid	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thronging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	participle						vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	throng	past · progressive	the invited guests				round the table	vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	enter	past	the head cook	the room				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
4	bear	gerund	the head cook not said here	a beautiful wedding cake	a silver dish			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
5	lay	past	the head cook not said here	cake		before Prince Milan		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before milan=Destination

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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