The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 4
Gladly she agreed, and cooked the feast in a kitchen that looked into the great hall, where the company were to eat it.
Who acts: woman, kitchen, company · What happens: agree, cook, look, be, eat · To what, where: feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, kitchen, company), 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 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cooked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cooked | cc |
| 6 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hall | amod |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 were | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 were | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 company | det |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 were | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hall | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 were | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 eat | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | woman | gladly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cook | past | the feast | in a kitchen | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent feast=Patient in kitchen=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | look | past | a kitchen | into the great hall | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hall=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | the company | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the company not said here | feast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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