The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 29

When it had eaten its fill, its leavings were placed before the lovely woman and she was made to eat of them.

Who acts: woman · What happens: eat, place, make · To what, where: water, leavings, woman

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: who acts (woman), 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	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fill	nmod:poss
6	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 placed	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 leavings	nmod:poss
9	leavings	leaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 placed	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	aux:pass
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eaten	conj
12	before	before	ADP	_	15 woman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eaten	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive		water			tree rules
2	place	past · passive		water's leavings	before the lovely woman		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before woman=Destination
3	make	past · passive		woman			tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	woman not said here			of leavings = leaving	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source

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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