More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 66

So he sat down together with his hungry wife, And they did very well without fork or knife, They never ate a better duck in all their life, And the little ones picked the bones-o!

Who acts: man, fox, little ones · What happens: sit down, do, not eat, pick · To what, where: better duck, life, bones

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fox, little ones), 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 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wife	amod
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 did	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 did	advmod
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 fork	case
17	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 knife	cc
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fork	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
21	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ate	nsubj
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 ate	advmod
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 duck	det
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 duck	amod
26	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 life	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 life	det:predet
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ate	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 picked	punct
32	And	and	CCONJ	_	36 picked	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ones	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ones	amod
35	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 picked	nsubj
36	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bones	det
38	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 picked	obj
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 bones	punct
40	o	o	INTJ	_	36 picked	discourse
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	man			with man's hungry wife; together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	fox			without fork or knife; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not eat	past	fox	a better duck	fox's life		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Patient
4	pick	past	the little ones	the bones			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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