The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 68
Then a troop of servants, male and female, flocked into the apartment where the happy couple sat, and after wishing the Princess and her bridegroom joy, they dispersed all over the castle to their different occupations.
Who acts: happy couple, apartments, Princess · What happens: flock, sit, wish, disperse, joy, occupy · To what, where: apartment, Princess, castle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy couple, apartments, Princess), 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 | 3 troop | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 troop | det |
| 3 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 troop | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 male | punct |
| 7 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servants | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 female | cc |
| 9 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 male | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flocked | punct |
| 11 | flocked | flock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 troop | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 apartment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 apartment | det |
| 14 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flocked | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 sat | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 couple | det |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 couple | amod |
| 18 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 apartment | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dispersed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dispersed | cc |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 wishing | mark |
| 23 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 dispersed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wishing | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 joy | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 joy | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 joy | compound |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Princess | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wishing | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 dispersed | nsubj |
| 32 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sat | conj |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 castle | advmod |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 castle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 castle | det |
| 36 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dispersed | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 occupations | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 occupations | nmod:poss |
| 39 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 occupations | amod |
| 40 | occupations | occupation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 castle | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 troop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flock | participle | the apartment | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | the happy couple | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish | gerund | apartments = apartment not said here | the Princess and Princess's bridegroom joy | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme | ||||
| 4 | disperse | past | apartments = apartment | the castle | to apartments's different occupations | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent castle=Patient | |||
| 5 | joy | Princess | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | occupy | apartments = apartment | nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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