The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 99

The meal was quickly ready, and the magician called to the boy to come down and eat it, but he could not be wakened, and they had to sit down to supper without him.

Who acts: meal, eyes · What happens: be, call, come down, eat, not waken, have · To what, where: magician, boy, meal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meal, eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 meal	det
2	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magician	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 magician	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 magician	det
9	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	obl
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 magician	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 boy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 called	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wakened	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 wakened	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wakened	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 wakened	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 wakened	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 wakened	aux:pass
26	wakened	waken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ready	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sit	mark
32	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 sit	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 supper	mark
35	supper	supper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sit	advcl
36	without	without	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 supper	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the meal			the magician obl; quickly, ready property	tree rules
2	call	participle		the magician not said here	the boy		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
3	come down	to-infinitive				down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	present		meal			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not waken	could · passive		magician			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	have	past	eyes = eye				tree rules
7	sit down	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	supper	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here			without magician	tree rules

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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