The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 79

After supper, they returned as they had come to the ebony room, where he was compelled to look on while his companions played interminable games of chess, and not until he was nearly dying of weariness did they, slowly and ceremoniously as before, conduct him to his sleeping apartment.

Who acts: dishes, companions, Prince · What happens: return, come, compel, look on, play, not die · To what, where: ebony room, Prince, interminable games, sleeping apartment

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 (dishes, companions, Prince), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 supper	case
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 supper	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 returned	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	ebony	ebony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 compelled	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 compelled	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 compelled	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 compelled	aux:pass
18	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 room	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 look	mark
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 compelled	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 look	compound:prt
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 played	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 companions	nmod:poss
24	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	nsubj
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 look	advcl
26	interminable	interminable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 games	amod
27	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 played	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 chess	case
29	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 games	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 did	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 did	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 dying	advmod
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 dying	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dying	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dying	aux
36	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	37 dying	advmod
37	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 did	csubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 weariness	case
39	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dying	obl
40	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 did	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 slowly	punct
43	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	40 did	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 ceremoniously	cc
45	ceremoniously	ceremoniously	ADV	_	43 slowly	conj
46	as	as	ADP	_	47 before	case
47	before	before	ADV	_	40 did	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 conduct	punct
49	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 returned	conj
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 conduct	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 apartment	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 apartment	nmod:poss
53	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 apartment	compound
54	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 conduct	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	dishes = dish			after supper		tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	dishes = dish		the ebony room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
3	compel	past · passive		Prince				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	look on	to-infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	play	past	Prince's companions	interminable games of chess				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
6	not die	past · progressive	Prince				of weariness; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of weariness=Causer
7	do	past	dishes = dish				slowly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	conduct	present	dishes = dish not said here	Prince	Prince's sleeping apartment			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to apartment=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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