The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 28
Delicate meats were set before the dog, and water given it in a royal cup of Chinese crystal.
What happens: set, give · To what, where: Delicate meats, water, royal cup
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meats | amod |
| 2 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 dog | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 given | cc |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 set | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 given | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cup | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cup | amod |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 crystal | case |
| 18 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 crystal | amod |
| 19 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cup | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Delicate meats | before the dog | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before dog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | participle · passive | water | a royal cup of Chinese crystal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Theme |
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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