The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 73

Further on, tables were spread with food, and girls dancing on the grass called to him to join them.

Who acts: girls · What happens: spread, dance, call, join · To what, where: tables, grass, colt, girls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	6 spread	advmod
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Further	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Further	punct
4	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spread	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spread	aux:pass
6	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dancing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dancing	cc
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dancing	nsubj
12	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spread	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dancing	obl
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 grass	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 join	mark
20	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dancing	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 join	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past · passive		tables			with food; further property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with food=Theme
2	dance	gerund	girls			the grass		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location
3	call	participle		the grass not said here	colt			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	join	to-infinitive	girls not said here	girls = girl				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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