The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 39
When he got back he offered it to his wife, who treated it as she had done the first bowlful.
Who acts: man, wife · What happens: get back, offer, treat, do · To what, where: honey, wife, first bowlful
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 offered | nsubj |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 offered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treated | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 treated | nsubj |
| 13 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 treated | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 done | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 treated | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bowlful | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 bowlful | amod |
| 21 | bowlful | bowlful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | man | honey | man's wife | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Goal | |||
| 3 | treat | past | man's wife | honey | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | wife | the first bowlful | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowlful=Eventuality |
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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