The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 16

Then I washed myself and put on a vest and doublet which they brought me, and I and the man that entered with me sat down before a table of silver, and a goodlier feast I never had.

Who acts: I, others, man, goodlier feast · What happens: wash, put, bring, enter, sit down, not have · To what, where: myself, vest, table

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, others, man, goodlier feast), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 washed	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 washed	nsubj
3	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 washed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 put	cc
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 washed	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 vest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vest	det
9	vest	vest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 doublet	cc
11	doublet	doublet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vest	conj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 brought	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vest	acl:relcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 man	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 I	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 entered	nsubj
23	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 man	acl:relcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 entered	obl
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 table	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 table	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 silver	case
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 table	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 feast	det
36	goodlier	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 feast	amod
37	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	nsubj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 had	advmod
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	I	myself		then		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
2	put	participle	I not said here		a vest and doublet			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on vest=Destination
3	bring	past	others = other	a vest and doublet				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme i=Destination
4	enter	past	the man				with me	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit down	past	I		a table of silver			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before table=Location
6	not have	past	a goodlier feast					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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/16/