The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 52

One day the merchant held a great feast in honour of the christening of his youngest child, and he gave each of his servants a handsome garment for the occasion.

Who acts: merchant, feast · What happens: hold, give, honour, christen · To what, where: great feast, honour, each, christening, youngest child

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (merchant, feast), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feast	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feast	amod
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 honour	case
10	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feast	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 christening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 christening	det
13	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 honour	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 child	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 child	nmod:poss
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 christening	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 held	conj
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 gave	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 servants	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servants	nmod:poss
25	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 each	nmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 garment	det
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 garment	amod
28	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 occasion	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 occasion	det
31	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 garment	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hold	past	the merchant	a great feast	honour of the christening of feast's youngest child	day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feast=Theme in honour=Location
2	give	past	feast	each			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient garment=Theme
3	honour			the christening of feast's youngest child			nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient
4	christen			feast's youngest child			nom christening «act transitive»: of=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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