More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 86

So he gave me a slice of beer, and a cup of cold veal; and there was a little dog under the table that picked up all the crumbs.

Who acts: maker, table · What happens: give, be, pick up, slice · To what, where: slice, me, table, crumbs, beer

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maker, table), 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	_	3 gave	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 table	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 slice	det
6	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 beer	case
8	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slice	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cup	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cup	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cup	det
12	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 veal	case
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 veal	amod
15	veal	veal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cup	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 table	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	amod
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 table	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 picked	nsubj
27	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 table	acl:relcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 picked	compound:prt
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 crumbs	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crumbs	det
31	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 picked	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 table	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	maker	a slice of beer	me		a cup of cold veal obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient slice=Theme
2	is	past				the table		tree rules
3	pick up	past	the table	all crumbs				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic
4	slice			beer				nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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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