English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 58
The king and queen were seated at the upper end of the room; and a number of dishes were brought in for dinner.
What happens: seat, bring in · To what, where: king, upper end, number
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 9 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 end | amod |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dishes | case |
| 19 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux:pass |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seated | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 brought | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 dinner | case |
| 24 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the king and queen | at the upper end of the room | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | bring in | past · passive | a number of dishes | for dinner | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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