The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 75

But the herring were now ready, and the students ate enough for six, and gave Prince some cold meat which they happened to have in the boat.

Who acts: herring, students, cold meat · What happens: be, eat, give, happen, have · To what, where: cold meat, Prince, boat

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herring, students, cold meat), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 ready	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herring	det
3	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ate	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 students	det
10	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	parataxis
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 ate	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 six	case
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ate	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ate	conj
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 gave	iobj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 meat	det
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meat	amod
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 happened	nsubj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 happened	nsubj
24	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 meat	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 have	mark
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 happened	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 boat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boat	det
29	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the herring				now	ready property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the students					for six; enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	the students not said here	some cold meat	Prince				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient meat=Theme
4	happen	past	some cold meat						tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	some cold meat not said here			the boat			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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