The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 96

When he sits down to eat his dinner sit beside him and eat with him.

Who acts: story · What happens: sit down, eat, sit · To what, where: dinner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sits	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	advcl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sits	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sits	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dinner	nmod:poss
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sit	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	present	story			tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	story not said here	story's dinner		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	sit	present			beside story	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
4	eat	present			with story	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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