The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 76
Supper was soon served, and very glad the younger brother was to eat it, for his long ride had made him very hungry.
Who acts: younger brother, brother · What happens: serve, be, make, ride · To what, where: Supper, long ride
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother), 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 | Supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 served | advmod |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glad | cc |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 glad | advmod |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 served | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glad | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ride | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ride | amod |
| 20 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 eat | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 made | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · passive | Supper | soon property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the younger brother | eat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | brother's long ride | hungry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product | ||||
| 4 | ride | brother | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=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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