The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 38

So the father invited all the world, and everyone was amazed to see such splendid things, so much plate, and so many fine dishes on the table.

Who acts: father, everyone · What happens: invite, be, see · To what, where: world, such splendid things

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, everyone), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 invited	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invited	nsubj
4	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 world	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invited	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 amazed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 amazed	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 amazed	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 amazed	cop
12	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 invited	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 amazed	advcl
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plate	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plate	amod
21	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invited	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dishes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dishes	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dishes	amod
26	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dishes	amod
27	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invited	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 table	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 table	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dishes	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invite	past	the father	all world	much plate obl; many fine dishes on the table obl	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient
2	is	past	everyone		amazed property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	such splendid things		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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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