The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 29

So they were flesh, and blood, and life once more, and there was great hugging and kissing, and all sat down to breakfast, and Seven Inches sat at the head of the table.

Who acts: lovers, Seven Inches · What happens: be, hug, kiss, sit down, sit · To what, where: flesh, head

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovers, Seven Inches), 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 flesh	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flesh	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flesh	cop
4	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 blood	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blood	cc
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flesh	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 life	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 life	cc
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flesh	conj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 life	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 great	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 great	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 great	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 great	cop
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flesh	parataxis
18	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 great	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kissing	cc
20	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hugging	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sat	advmod
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hugging	parataxis
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 breakfast	case
27	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sat	cc
30	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 Inches	nummod
31	Inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sat	nsubj
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sat	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 head	det
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 table	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 table	det
38	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flesh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lovers = lover	flesh and blood and life			tree rules
2	is	past			there	great property	tree rules
3	hug	gerund					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kiss	gerund					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sit down	past				to breakfast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	past	Seven Inches		the head of the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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