Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 56

Soon they sat down to a table loaded with the very dishes of which they had pre-tend-ed to eat.

Who acts: hands · What happens: sit down, load, pre-tend-, eat · To what, where: table

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 table	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 dishes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dishes	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 dishes	advmod
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loaded	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 pre-tend-ed	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pre-tend-ed	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pre-tend-ed	aux
17	pre-tend-ed	pre-tend-	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 dishes	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pre-tend-ed	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	hands = hand		to a table; soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	load	participle		a table not said here	with the dishes	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dish=Theme
3	pre-tend-	past · perfect	hands = hand		of the dishes	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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