The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 112

At the sound of her voice the boy got up and ate the food she gave him.

Who acts: boy, grandson · What happens: get up, eat, give · To what, where: sound, food, boy

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 (boy, grandson), 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 sound	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 voice	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 voice	nmod:poss
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 got	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 food	det
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 food	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	get up	past	the boy			the sound of grandson's voice	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	past	the boy not said here	the food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	give	past	grandson	the food not said here	boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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