The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 75

However, he had to follow his guides in silence, and they led him into a magnificent hall; the floor was of ebony, the walls of jet, and all the hangings were of black velvet, but the Prince looked round it in vain for something to eat, and then made signs that he was hungry.

Who acts: Prince, guides, floor, hangings · What happens: have, follow, lead, be, look, eat · To what, where: guides, silence, Prince, magnificent hall, signs

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, guides, floor, hangings), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 follow	mark
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 guides	nmod:poss
8	guides	guide	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 silence	case
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 led	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 led	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 led	nsubj
14	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 led	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 hall	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hall	det
18	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hall	amod
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 led	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ebony	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 floor	det
22	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ebony	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ebony	cop
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 ebony	case
25	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 walls	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 walls	det
28	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ebony	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 jet	case
30	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walls	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 velvet	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 velvet	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 hangings	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hangings	det
35	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 velvet	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 velvet	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 velvet	case
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 velvet	amod
39	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ebony	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 looked	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 looked	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Prince	det
43	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 looked	nsubj
44	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
45	round	round	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 looked	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 vain	case
48	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 looked	xcomp
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 something	case
50	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 vain	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 eat	mark
52	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 something	acl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 made	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 made	cc
55	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 made	advmod
56	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
57	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 made	obj
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 hungry	mark
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 hungry	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 hungry	cop
61	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 made	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Prince				however property	tree rules
2	follow	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince's guides	silence			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guide=Theme in silence=Trajectory
3	lead	past	guides = guide	Prince	a magnificent hall			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination
4	is	past	the floor				of ebony and the walls of jet and black velvet	tree rules
5	is	past	all hangings				of black velvet	tree rules
6	look	past	the Prince				round floor; vain property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round it=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	make	past	Prince not said here	signs		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
9	is	past	Prince				hungry property	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 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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