The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 78

Of course he gave it to her, though he would gladly have eaten it himself, as three onions are not much at the end of a long day’s walk, and soon after they all went to sleep, the poor man making himself as comfortable as he could in his corner.

Who acts: man, three onions, onions, poor man, long day · What happens: give, eat, be, go, make, walk · To what, where: supper, wife, end, sleep, man

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 (man, three onions, onions, poor man), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	4 gave	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 eaten	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
12	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	14 eaten	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gave	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	obj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 eaten	obl:agent
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 end	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 end	mark
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 onions	nummod
20	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 end	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 end	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	26 end	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 end	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	32 walk	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 walk	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 day	case
32	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 end	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 went	advmod
36	after	after	SCONJ	_	39 went	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 went	advmod
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 sleep	case
41	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 making	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 man	det
44	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 man	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 making	nsubj
46	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 went	advcl
47	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 making	obj
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 comfortable	advmod
49	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 making	xcomp
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 could	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 could	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 comfortable	advcl
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 corner	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 corner	nmod:poss
55	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 could	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	man	supper	wife				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient
2	eat	would · perfect	man	supper				gladly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	present	three onions				at the end	of a long day's walk	tree rules
4	go	past	onions = onion			sleep		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
5	make	gerund	the poor man	man				comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
6	walk		a long day						nom walk «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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