The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 96

The woman said no more, but set before him a bottle of his favourite wine, and soon he began to wish to display his prize.

Who acts: woman, lid · What happens: say, set, begin, wish, display · To what, where: more, bottle, prize · 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 (woman, lid), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bottle	det
12	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 wine	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wine	nmod:poss
15	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wine	amod
16	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bottle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 began	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wish	mark
23	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 display	mark
25	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wish	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 prize	nmod:poss
27	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 display	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman	more			tree rules
2	set	infinitive		a bottle of lid's favourite wine	before lid		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme before he=Destination
3	begin	past	lid			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wish	to-infinitive	lid not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	display not said to happen	to-infinitive	lid not said here	lid's prize			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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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