The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 104
At the end of ten days the old woman came to him with a bowl of the same food that he had eaten before.
Who acts: old woman, boy · What happens: come, eat · To what, where: boy, end
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, boy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bowl | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bowl | det |
| 15 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 food | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 food | amod |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bowl | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 eaten | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eaten | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 eaten | aux |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 eaten | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the old woman | boy | at the end of ten days | with a bowl of the same food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | boy | before property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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