The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 32

The boy took his last loaf and flask out of his knapsack and laid them on the ground, and they had supper together.

Who acts: boy, ferns · What happens: take, lay, have · To what, where: last loaf, knapsack, ferns, ground, supper

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, ferns), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 loaf	nmod:poss
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loaf	amod
6	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flask	cc
8	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loaf	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 knapsack	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 knapsack	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knapsack	nmod:poss
12	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
23	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
24	together	together	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the boy	boy's last loaf and flask	boy's knapsack		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme out knapsack=Initial_Location
2	lay	past	the boy not said here	ferns = fern	the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination
3	have	past	ferns = fern	supper		together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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