The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 52

So they began by inviting Father Grumbler to sit down to the table, and brought out the best wine in the cellar, hoping it might loosen his tongue.

Who acts: innkeeper, wine · What happens: begin, invite, sit down, bring out, hope, loosen · To what, where: Father, best wine, cellar, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (innkeeper, wine), 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	_	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 inviting	mark
5	inviting	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 inviting	obj
7	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Father	flat
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 inviting	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sit	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 brought	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wine	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 wine	amod
20	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 cellar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cellar	det
23	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wine	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hoping	punct
25	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 brought	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 loosen	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 loosen	aux
28	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hoping	ccomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tongue	nmod:poss
30	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 loosen	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	innkeeper					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	invite	gerund	innkeeper not said here		Father			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	sit down	to-infinitive	innkeeper not said here				to the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring out	past	innkeeper not said here	the best wine		the cellar		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
5	hope	gerund	innkeeper not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	loosen	might	wine	Father's tongue				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient

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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