The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 62
When the third man arrived his wife gave him his supper, and after that he went to bed, just as usual.
Who acts: third man, wife, man · What happens: arrive, give, go · To what, where: supper, man, bed
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 (third man, wife, man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 supper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 usual | punct |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 usual | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 usual | case |
| 23 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 went | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the third man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | man's wife | man's supper | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient supper=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | man | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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