The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 8

Then the curtain fell before it once more, and the Prince, after many ceremonies, was presented with a raven which perched upon his wrist, and was conducted slowly back to the iron gate.

Who acts: curtain, raven · What happens: fall, present, perch, conduct · To what, where: nature, Prince, wrist

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curtain, raven), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 curtain	det
3	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	obl
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fell	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 presented	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 presented	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 presented	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ceremonies	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 ceremonies	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ceremonies	amod
16	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Prince	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Prince	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 presented	aux:pass
19	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 raven	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 raven	det
22	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 presented	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 perched	nsubj
24	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 raven	acl:relcl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 wrist	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wrist	nmod:poss
27	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perched	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 conducted	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 conducted	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 conducted	aux:pass
31	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	parataxis
32	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	33 back	advmod
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 conducted	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 gate	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 gate	det
36	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gate	compound
37	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 back	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the curtain		nature	then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before it=Location
2	present	past · passive		the Prince			with a raven	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with raven=Theme
3	perch	past	a raven		Prince's wrist			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wrist=Location
4	conduct	past · passive						vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»

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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