The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 67

Well, that evening, when the young man had supped off his favourite dishes which the princess took care to have specially prepared for him, she sat down close beside him, and began stroking his head.

Who acts: young man, princess · What happens: sup, take, have, prepare, sit down, begin · To what, where: favourite dishes, head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, princess), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 evening	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 supped	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 supped	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 supped	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 supped	aux
11	supped	sup	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 evening	acl:relcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	15 dishes	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dishes	nmod:poss
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dishes	amod
15	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 supped	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 took	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dishes	acl:relcl
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 took	advcl
23	specially	specially	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
24	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 have	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 prepared	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sat	nsubj
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	parataxis
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 sat	advmod
31	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 sat	advmod
32	beside	beside	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 began	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 began	cc
36	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sat	conj
37	stroking	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 began	xcomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stroking	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sup	past · perfect	the young man		off man's favourite dishes	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the princess	man's favourite dishes		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme care=Destination
3	have	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		specially property	tree rules
4	prepare	participle	the princess not said here		for man	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
5	sit down	past	princess		beside man; close, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
6	begin	past	princess not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	stroke	gerund	princess not said here	man's head		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer

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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