The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 41

What a wretch I am!’ he thought to himself; and he remained apart and watched the Groac’h while she emptied the fish into a plate, and bade him eat his dinner while she fetched wine from her cellar in a cave.

Who acts: Houarn, Groac’h · What happens: think, remain, watch, empty, eat, fetch · To what, where: wretch, Houarn, Groac’h, fish, plate, bade

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn, Groac’h), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 wretch	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wretch	det
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 am	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wretch	acl:relcl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remained	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remained	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remained	nsubj
15	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	parataxis
16	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 remained	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 watched	cc
18	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remained	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Groac’h	det
20	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 watched	obj
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 emptied	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 emptied	nsubj
23	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 watched	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fish	det
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 emptied	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 plate	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plate	det
28	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 emptied	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eat	cc
31	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eat	nsubj
33	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dinner	nmod:poss
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obj
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 fetched	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fetched	nsubj
38	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 eat	advcl
39	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fetched	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 cellar	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cellar	nmod:poss
42	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fetched	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 cave	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 cave	det
45	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fetched	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Houarn	what wretch	Houarn			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remain	past	Houarn				apart property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	past	Houarn not said here	the Groac’h				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groac'h=Theme
4	empty	past	Groac’h = groac'h	the fish		a plate		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Source
5	eat	present	Houarn	bade				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
6	fetch	past	Groac’h = groac'h	wine		Groac’h's cellar	in a cave	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wine=Theme from cellar=Source

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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