The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 114
Then they offered their brother some of their food, and when he had finished eating they went their way once more.
Who acts: fortunes, brother · What happens: offer, finish, eat, go · To what, where: some, brother, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortunes, brother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 offered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 food | nmod:poss |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 some | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 finished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 finished | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 finished | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 finished | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 finished | aux |
| 15 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 offered | conj |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 offered | advcl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 eating | ccomp |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 went | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | fortunes = fortune | some | fortunes's brother | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent brother=Goal some=Theme | ||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | fortunes = fortune not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | fortunes = fortune | fortunes's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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 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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