The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 97

So the boy sat down, and ate some food which she gave him in a bowl.

Who acts: boy, food · What happens: sit down, eat, give · To what, where: food, boy, bowl

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, food), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ate	cc
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 gave	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 food	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 bowl	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bowl	det
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	the boy				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	the boy not said here	some food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	give	past	some food		boy	a bowl	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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