The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 48

But food was given him every hour, and at the end of two days he was as fat and big as a Christmas turkey, and could hardly move his head from one side to the other.

Who acts: fat, ball · What happens: give, be, move · To what, where: food, ball, end, head, one side

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fat, ball), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 given	cc
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 given	iobj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fat	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fat	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 days	nummod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 end	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fat	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fat	cop
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 fat	case
19	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl:agent
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 big	cc
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fat	conj
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 turkey	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 turkey	det
24	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 turkey	compound
25	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 big	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 move	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 move	cc
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 move	aux
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	30 move	advmod
30	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fat	acl:relcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 move	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 side	nummod
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 move	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 other	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 move	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive	fat	food	ball		hour		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Theme
2	is	past	ball				at the end of two days	as fat	tree rules
3	be		ball not said here					as a Christmas turkey	tree rules
4	move	could	fat not said here	ball's head		one side		to the other result; hardly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient head=Extent from side=Initial_State to other=Result

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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