The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 8

‘It is,’ says she; and before he rose from the table he ate three-quarters of a calf, and a flask of wine.

Who acts: ’, calf · What happens: be, say, rise, eat · To what, where: princess, table, three quarters · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (’, calf), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 rose	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ate	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 quarters	nummod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 three	punct
20	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ate	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 calf	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 calf	det
23	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 quarters	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flask	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flask	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 flask	det
27	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 wine	case
29	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flask	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	’ = '				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present		princess			tree rules
3	rise	past	calf		the table		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location
4	eat	past	calf	three quarters of a calf		a flask of wine obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/11/8/