The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 62

So that night, when all the village was asleep, he came out from the wood and ate a few beans here and a few there, as his mistress had bidden him.

Who acts: night, mistress · What happens: be, come out, eat, bid · To what, where: wood, few beans, mistress

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, mistress), 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 asleep	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asleep	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asleep	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 village	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asleep	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	parataxis
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 beans	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beans	amod
22	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ate	obj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 ate	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 few	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 few	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ate	conj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 few	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bidden	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 bidden	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mistress	nmod:poss
31	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bidden	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bidden	aux
33	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ate	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bidden	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	that night			asleep property	tree rules
2	come out	past	mistress		the wood	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	eat	past	mistress not said here	a few beans	here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient
4	bid	past · perfect · passive		mistress's mistress			tree rules

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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