The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 9

When it wished for food he cut off pieces of the meat and put them in its mouth.

Who acts: way, Jamila · What happens: wish, cut off, put · To what, where: pieces, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Jamila), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wished	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	advcl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 meat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meat	det
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pieces	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 mouth	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mouth	nmod:poss
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	way			for food	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for food=Theme
2	cut off	past	Jamila	pieces of the meat			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector piece=Eventuality
3	put	infinitive	Jamila not said here	pieces = piece	way's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mouth=Destination

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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