The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 118

The wife, on seeing this, took pity on him, and called him to come and share their supper, which he gladly did, and very good he found it.

Who acts: wife, brother · What happens: see, take, call, come, share, do · To what, where: this, pity, brother, supper · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 seeing	mark
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wife	acl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 seeing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
14	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 called	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 share	cc
19	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 supper	nmod:poss
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 share	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 did	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 did	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
25	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	26 did	advmod
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 supper	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 good	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 good	cc
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 good	advmod
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 took	parataxis
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 good	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the wife not said here	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	take	past	the wife	pity	on brother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on he=Destination
3	call	past	the wife not said here	brother		tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	the wife not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	share	infinitive	the wife not said here	fortunes's supper		tree rules
6	do	past	brother	fortunes's supper	gladly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
7	find	past	brother	pity		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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