The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 54

But when good food was set before him he seemed to forget to eat.

Who acts: father · What happens: set, seem, forget, not eat · To what, where: good food

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 set	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux:pass
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	advcl
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 forget	mark
12	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forget	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	set	past · passive		good food	before father	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination
2	seem	past	father			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	forget	to-infinitive	father not said here			tree rules
4	not eat	to-infinitive	father 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: «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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