The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 83

The next morning the fox came to his usual place in front of the tree, for he was hungry, and a nice young magpie would have suited him very well for dinner.

Who acts: fox · What happens: come, be, suit · To what, where: usual place, nice young magpie

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 place	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 place	nmod:poss
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 front	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hungry	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 hungry	case
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hungry	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hungry	cop
20	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 suited	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 suited	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 magpie	det
24	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 magpie	amod
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 magpie	amod
26	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suited	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 suited	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 suited	aux
29	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 suited	obj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 suited	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 dinner	case
34	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 suited	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the fox		fox's usual place in front of the tree	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	is	past	fox				hungry property	tree rules
3	suit	would · perfect · passive		a nice young magpie			for dinner; well property	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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