The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 7

'The new one is the best of all,' said the children when they came down to feed the swans with biscuit and cake before going to bed. '

Who acts: new one, best, children · What happens: be, say, come down, feed, go · To what, where: children, swans, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new one, best, children), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 best	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 best	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 best	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 said	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 best	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 best	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 best	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feed	mark
20	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 swans	det
22	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feed	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 biscuit	case
24	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cake	cc
26	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 biscuit	conj
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 going	mark
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 feed	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 bed	case
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 going	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the new one			of all; good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the best	the children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic
3	come down	past	children = child			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feed	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	the swans		with biscuit and cake	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Recipient
5	go	gerund	children = child not said here		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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