More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 49
Well! there it lay in a dish on the table, and if the goodman and goodwife didn't ride in a golden coach, or dress in silk and satin, why, they had at least as fine a black pudding for their supper as the heart of man could desire.
Who acts: pudding, goodman, coach, man · What happens: lie, not ride, have, desire · To what, where: dish, golden coach, least, heart
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pudding, goodman, coach, man), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 lay | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lay | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dish | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ride | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ride | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 ride | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goodman | det |
| 16 | goodman | goodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 goodwife | cc |
| 18 | goodwife | goodwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 goodman | conj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ride | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 ride | advmod |
| 21 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lay | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 coach | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 coach | det |
| 24 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 coach | amod |
| 25 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ride | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dress | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 dress | cc |
| 28 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coach | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 silk | case |
| 30 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dress | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 satin | cc |
| 32 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coach | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 why | punct |
| 34 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 coach | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 least | case |
| 39 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 had | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 pudding | case |
| 41 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pudding | amod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 pudding | det |
| 43 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pudding | amod |
| 44 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 supper | case |
| 46 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 supper | nmod:poss |
| 47 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pudding | nmod |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 heart | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 heart | det |
| 50 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 man | case |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 desire | nsubj |
| 53 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 desire | aux |
| 54 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 heart | acl:relcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | pudding | a dish; there | on the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dish=Location | |||
| 2 | not ride a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | the goodman and goodwife | a golden coach or dress in silk and satin | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | coach | least | as a fine black pudding for coach's supper; as the heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | desire | could | man | the heart not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heart=Theme |
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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