The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 78

Then they all sat down to a huge feast, and the Prince had to relate his adventures all over again, to the wonder and astonishment of the whole company.

Who acts: guards, Prince, emperor · What happens: sit down, have, relate, adventure, astonish · To what, where: adventures, whole company

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Prince, emperor), 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 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 feast	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feast	amod
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 relate	mark
16	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 adventures	nmod:poss
18	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 relate	obj
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 again	advmod
20	over	over	ADV	_	21 again	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	16 relate	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wonder	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 wonder	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wonder	det
25	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 astonishment	cc
27	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wonder	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 company	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 company	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 company	amod
31	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 astonishment	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	guards = guard		then	to a huge feast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the Prince			to the wonder and astonishment of the whole company	tree rules
3	relate	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	emperor's adventures	again		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
4	adventure		emperor				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	astonish			the whole company			nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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