More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 134

He put the horse into a much better stable, and called Jack in, and gave him plenty to eat and drink, and they had a bit of a chat before they went to bed.

Who acts: man, finger · What happens: put, call, give, eat, drink, have · To what, where: horse, Jack, plenty, man, bit, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, finger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	8 better	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 better	det
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 put	parataxis
9	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 better	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 better	conj
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	obj
14	in	in	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 plenty	acl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drink	cc
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 eat	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bit	det
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 chat	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 chat	det
32	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bit	nmod
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 went	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 bed	case
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	man		the horse		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal
2	call	participle	man not said here		Jack		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient
3	give	past	man not said here	plenty	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	plenty not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	infinitive	man not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	finger	a bit of a chat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
7	go	past	finger			bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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