The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 68

This flattered the farmer’s wife so much that she gave him some butter to spread on it, and Peronnik was still eating it on the doorstep when an armed knight rode up.

Who acts: This, wife, Peronnik, armed knight · What happens: flatter, give, spread, eat, ride up · To what, where: wife, butter, Peronnik, doorstep

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, wife, Peronnik, armed knight), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 flattered	nsubj
2	flattered	flatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 farmer	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flattered	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	2 flattered	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 gave	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flattered	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 butter	det
14	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 spread	mark
16	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gave	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spread	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eating	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 eating	cc
21	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 eating	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eating	aux
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 eating	advmod
24	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flattered	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eating	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 doorstep	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 doorstep	det
28	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eating	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 rode	advmod
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 knight	det
31	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 knight	amod
32	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rode	nsubj
33	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 eating	conj
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 rode	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	flatter	past	This	the farmer's wife				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer
2	give	past	wife	some butter	Peronnik			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient butter=Theme
3	spread	to-infinitive	wife not said here			butter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location
4	eat	past · progressive	Peronnik	butter		the doorstep	still	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	ride up	past	a armed knight					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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