The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 7
And when they had eaten and drunk, Kynon, the oldest among them, began his story.
Who acts: Tales · What happens: eat, begin · To what, where: Kynon, story
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 (Tales), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 began | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drunk | cc |
| 7 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eaten | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kynon | punct |
| 9 | Kynon | Kynon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 oldest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oldest | det |
| 12 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 Kynon | appos |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 oldest | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 story | nmod:poss |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | Tales = tale | Kynon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Kynon's story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality |
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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