The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 5

After that she watched the seat where the bridegroom was sitting, and taking a plateful of the broth, she dropped the ring and the feather into it, and set if herself before him.

Who acts: company, bridegroom · What happens: watch, sit, take, drop, set · To what, where: seat, plateful, ring, company

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 (company, bridegroom), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 watched	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seat	det
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sitting	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridegroom	det
9	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seat	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taking	cc
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 watched	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plateful	det
16	plateful	plateful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 broth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 broth	det
19	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plateful	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropped	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dropped	nsubj
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ring	det
24	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 feather	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feather	det
27	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ring	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dropped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
32	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dropped	advcl
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 herself	mark
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 set	obl
35	before	before	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	company	the seat	after that		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
2	sit	past · progressive	the bridegroom				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	company not said here	a plateful of the broth			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plateful=Theme
4	drop	past	company	the ring and the feather		into bridegroom	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme into it=Destination
5	set	infinitive	company not said here	company	before kitchen		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination

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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