The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 19

The third sister was very kind, but had no counsel to give him, so he ate and drank and waited till her son came home, after he had sent all the birds to sleep.

Who acts: third sister, counsel, man, son · What happens: be, have, give, eat, drink, wait · To what, where: counsel, man, birds

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third sister, counsel, man, son), 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	3 sister	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 counsel	det
11	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 ate	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drank	cc
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ate	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waited	cc
22	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ate	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 waited	advcl
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sent	punct
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	32 sent	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sent	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sent	aux
32	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 came	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 birds	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sent	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 sleep	mark
37	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sent	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the third sister			kind property	tree rules
2	have	past	the third sister not said here	no counsel			tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	no counsel not said here		man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	eat	past	man				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past	man not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	past	man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	past	sister's son			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	send	past · perfect	man	all birds			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
9	sleep	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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