The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 68

So they went in and ordered dinner, and when they had finished the king’s son drew out of his pocket the last apple, and cut it into two unequal parts, and held both out to the stranger.

Who acts: miles, finished son · What happens: go in, order, finish, draw out, cut, hold · To what, where: ordered dinner, pocket, two unequal parts

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 (miles, finished son), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dinner	cc
6	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 dinner	amod
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finished	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 finished	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	aux
13	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 son	amod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	nsubj
18	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 pocket	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 pocket	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pocket	nmod:poss
22	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 apple	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 apple	amod
25	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drew	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cut	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cut	cc
28	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cut	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 parts	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 parts	nummod
32	unequal	unequal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 parts	amod
33	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cut	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 held	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 held	cc
36	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
37	both	both	ADV	_	38 out	advmod
38	out	out	ADV	_	36 held	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 stranger	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 stranger	det
41	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 held	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	past	miles = mile	ordered dinner			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order	participle					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	finish	past · perfect	miles = mile				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	draw out	past	the king's finished son	son's pocket			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent apple=Beneficiary pocket=Result
5	cut	past		pocket	two unequal parts		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into part=Product
6	hold	past	miles = mile not said here			to the stranger; out property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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