The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 78

The good man, who had eaten several excellent meals provided by the table in the last three days, accepted the invitation with pleasure, even though he was to dine in a stable, and sat down on the straw beside Jack.

Who acts: good man, man · What happens: eat, provide, accept, be, sit down · To what, where: several excellent meals, invitation, stable, straw

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good man, man), 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	3 man	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accepted	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eaten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 man	acl:relcl
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meals	amod
9	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meals	amod
10	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eaten	obj
11	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 meals	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provided	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 days	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 days	amod
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 provided	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
21	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 invitation	det
23	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 accepted	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 pleasure	case
25	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invitation	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dine	punct
27	even	even	ADV	_	32 dine	advmod
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 dine	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dine	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dine	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 dine	mark
32	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 accepted	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 stable	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 stable	det
35	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dine	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sat	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sat	cc
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 accepted	conj
39	down	down	ADP	_	38 sat	compound:prt
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 straw	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 straw	det
42	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sat	obl
43	beside	beside	ADP	_	44 Jack	case
44	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 sat	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	the good man	several excellent meals				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	provide	participle		several excellent meals not said here		day	by the table	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
3	accept	past	the good man	the invitation			with pleasure	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
4	is	past	man		a stable		dine property	tree rules
5	sit down	past	the good man not said here		the straw		beside Jack	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on straw=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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