The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 99

When he had eaten up every bit, the witch asked him if he had ever fasted.

Who acts: boy, witch · What happens: eat up, ask, fast · To what, where: bit, 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, witch), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
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	11 asked	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 eaten	compound:prt
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 fasted	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fasted	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fasted	aux
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 fasted	advmod
17	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	eat up	past · perfect	boy	every bit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	the witch		boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	fast a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	boy			ever	tree rules

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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