English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 76

That night they were all gathered in the castle hall to hear the great harper--king and queen, their daughter and son, Sir William and all their Court.

What happens: gather, hear · To what, where: night, castle hall, great harper

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	nsubj:pass
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gathered	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gathered	aux:pass
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 gathered	advmod
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hall	compound
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gathered	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 harper	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 harper	amod
15	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 king	punct
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 harper	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 queen	cc
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 king	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 daughter	punct
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 king	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 son	cc
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 king	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 William	punct
26	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 William	nmod:desc
27	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 king	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Court	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 Court	det:predet
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Court	nmod:poss
31	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 William	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past · passive		that night		the castle hall		all property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive		the great harper					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer harper=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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