The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 76

In the same manner he was respectfully given to understand that he must wait, and after several hours the sixty hooded and shrouded figures re-appeared, and conducted him with great ceremony, and also very very slowly, to a banqueting hall, where they all placed themselves at a long table.

Who acts: Prince, figures · What happens: give, understand, wait, hood, shroud, re-appear · To what, where: Prince, banqueting hall, same manner, figures, long table · Speech: someone speaks here

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, figures), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 manner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manner	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manner	amod
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux:pass
7	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	8 given	advmod
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 understand	mark
10	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 given	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wait	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wait	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wait	aux
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 understand	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hooded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hooded	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 hours	case
18	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hours	amod
19	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hooded	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sixty	det
21	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 hours	nmod
22	hooded	hood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 given	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shrouded	cc
24	shrouded	shroud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hooded	conj
25	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 re-appeared	nsubj
26	re-appeared	re-appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shrouded	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 conducted	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 conducted	cc
29	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hooded	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 conducted	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 ceremony	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ceremony	amod
33	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 conducted	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 slowly	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 slowly	cc
36	also	also	ADV	_	39 slowly	advmod
37	very	very	ADV	_	39 slowly	advmod
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 slowly	advmod
39	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 given	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hall	punct
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 hall	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hall	det
43	banqueting	banquet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 hall	amod
44	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 placed	punct
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 placed	advmod
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 placed	nsubj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 placed	advmod
49	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 hall	conj
50	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 placed	obj
51	at	at	ADP	_	54 table	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 table	det
53	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 table	amod
54	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 placed	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Prince	a banqueting hall	the same manner		respectfully, slowly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hall=Recipient
2	understand	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	wait	must	Prince						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hood	past					hour		tree rules
5	shroud	past							tree rules
6	re-appear	past	figures						tree rules
7	conduct	past		Prince				with great ceremony	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	banquet	gerund							vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	place	past	figures = figure	figures = figure		a long table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at table=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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