The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 45
The other consented, and they were soon sitting before a good dinner.
Who acts: apples · What happens: consent, sit · To what, where: good dinner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apples), 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 consented | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 consented | amod |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sitting | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 consented | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dinner | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dinner | amod |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | apples = apple | a good dinner | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before dinner=Location |
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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