The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 37

The herdsman’s two daughters and their mother were sitting at supper, and invited him to join them.

Who acts: two daughters, youth · What happens: sit, invite, join · To what, where: supper, youth, daughters

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two daughters, youth), 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 herdsman	det
2	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 herdsman	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sitting	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 supper	case
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 invited	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 invited	cc
15	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 invited	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 join	mark
18	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 invited	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 join	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the herdsman's two daughters and daughters's mother		supper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at supper=Location
2	invite	past	the herdsman's two daughters and daughters's mother not said here	youth		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	youth not said here	daughters = daughter		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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