The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 116
A woman came out, and bade her welcome, and set before her food, and gave her a soft bed to lie on.
Who acts: woman, wife · What happens: come out, give, lie on, welcome · To what, where: bade, soft bed, wife
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, wife), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bade | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bade | cc |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 welcome | nmod:poss |
| 9 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 food | nmod:poss |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bed | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bed | amod |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 lie | mark |
| 24 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gave | advcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 lie | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | a woman | bade | set before wife's food obl; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | past | a woman not said here | a soft bed | wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bed=Theme | |||
| 3 | lie on | to-infinitive | a woman not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | welcome | wife | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=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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