More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 19

The lady consented; but meanwhile the old wife had prepared a sleeping drink, and given it to the knight who drank it, and never wakened till next morning.

Who acts: lady, old wife, knight · What happens: consent, prepare, give, drink, not waken · To what, where: sleeping drink, drink, knight

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, old wife, knight), 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 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consented	nsubj
3	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 prepared	cc
6	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	11 prepared	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wife	amod
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prepared	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 prepared	aux
11	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 consented	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 drink	det
13	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 drink	amod
14	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prepared	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 given	cc
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 prepared	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 given	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 knight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 knight	det
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 drank	nsubj
23	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knight	acl:relcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 drank	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wakened	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wakened	cc
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 wakened	advmod
28	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consented	conj
29	till	till	ADP	_	31 morning	case
30	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 morning	amod
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wakened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	participle	the lady					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	past · perfect	the old wife	a sleeping drink			meanwhile property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
3	give	participle	the old wife not said here	drink	the knight			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to knight=Recipient
4	drink	past	the knight	drink				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not waken	participle	the lady not said here			morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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