The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 49

And the old man smiled on him and bade him eat and drink, and after he hungered no more, he would speak with him.

Who acts: old man, salmon · What happens: smile, bade, eat, drink, hunger, speak · To what, where: salmon, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, salmon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 smiled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smiled	nsubj
5	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smiled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bade	cc
9	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smiled	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bade	obj
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bade	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 eat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 speak	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 speak	cc
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 hungered	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hungered	nsubj
18	hungered	hunger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	advcl
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 hungered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hungered	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speak	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 speak	aux
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smiled	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speak	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the old man		on salmon	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bade	past	the old man not said here	salmon		tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	the old man not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	the old man not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hunger	past	salmon	more		tree rules
6	speak speech: other	would	salmon		with man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

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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