The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 76

“If this cloth is spread on a table,” answered they, “the table is instantly covered with the most delicious food; and we each want to have it.”

Who acts: we · What happens: spread, answer, cover, want, have · To what, where: cloth, table, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 spread	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 cloth	det
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	aux:pass
6	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 answered	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 covered	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 covered	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 covered	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 covered	aux:pass
19	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	20 covered	advmod
20	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 answered	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 food	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 food	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 delicious	advmod
24	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 food	amod
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 covered	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 want	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 want	advmod
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		this cloth		a table		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on table=Destination
2	answer speech: assert	past			brothers = brother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	cover in a quote	present · passive		the table			with the delicious food; instantly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with food=Theme
4	want in a quote	present	we					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	cloth				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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