More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 18

So the man sat down and helped himself, and ate some o' this dish and some o' that, and enjoyed himself finely.

Who acts: man · What happens: sit down, help, eat, enjoy · To what, where: man, o

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helped	cc
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 helped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ate	cc
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 o	det
13	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 dish	punct
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 dish	det
16	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 o	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 o	det
19	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dish	conj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 dish	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 ate	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 enjoyed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 enjoyed	cc
24	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 enjoyed	obj
26	finely	finely	ADV	_	24 enjoyed	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the man			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	past	the man not said here	man		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
3	eat	past	the man not said here	some o		tree rules
4	enjoy	past	the man not said here	man	finely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=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: «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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