The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 80

The poor merchant, more dead than alive, went back to his room, where the most delicious supper was already served on the little table which was drawn up before a blazing fire.

Who acts: poor merchant · What happens: go back, serve, draw up, blaze · To what, where: delicious supper, little table

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor merchant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 dead	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 alive	case
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dead	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 merchant	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 room	nmod:poss
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 served	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 served	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 supper	det
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 delicious	advmod
19	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 supper	amod
20	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 served	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 served	aux:pass
22	already	already	ADV	_	23 served	advmod
23	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 room	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 table	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 table	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 table	amod
27	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 served	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 drawn	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 drawn	aux:pass
30	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 table	acl:relcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 drawn	compound:prt
32	before	before	ADP	_	35 fire	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fire	det
34	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 fire	amod
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drawn	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the poor merchant				to merchant's room result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result
2	serve	past · passive		the delicious supper	the little table			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	draw up	past · passive		the little table		before a blazing fire		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	blaze	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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