The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 65

Still, it was Christmas Eve, and besides it was as well not to offend him, so the farmer invited him in, and gave him a seat at the table and a wooden spoon like the rest.

Who acts: pause, farmer · What happens: be, not be, invite, give · To what, where: Christmas, seat, table

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pause, farmer), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	5 Christmas	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Christmas	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Christmas	cop
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Christmas	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 offend	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 offend	cc
9	besides	besides	ADP	_	16 offend	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 offend	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 offend	cop
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 offend	advmod
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 offend	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 offend	mark
16	offend	offend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Christmas	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 offend	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 invited	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 invited	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 farmer	det
21	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 invited	nsubj
22	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 offend	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 invited	obj
24	in	in	ADV	_	22 invited	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 invited	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 seat	det
30	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 table	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 table	det
33	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seat	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 spoon	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 spoon	det
36	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 spoon	amod
37	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seat	conj
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 rest	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rest	det
40	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spoon	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Christmas	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	pause	Christmas			still		tree rules
2	not is	past	pause					offend, well property	tree rules
3	invite	past	the farmer		Christmas				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	give	past	the farmer not said here	a seat and a wooden spoon like the rest	Christmas	the table			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seat=Theme at table=Asset

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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