The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 30

So he ground meat and drink, and all kinds of good things, to last all Christmas-tide, and on the third day he invited all his friends to come to a feast.

Who acts: kinds, Man · What happens: last, invite, come · To what, where: Christmas tide, friends, feast

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kinds, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 meat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meat	nsubj
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	compound
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drink	cc
6	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 last	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kinds	det
10	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 last	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 things	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kinds	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 last	mark
16	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meat	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 tide	det
18	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tide	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Christmas	punct
20	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 last	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 invited	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 invited	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 day	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
25	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 day	amod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 invited	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 invited	nsubj
28	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 last	advcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 friends	det:predet
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friends	nmod:poss
31	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 invited	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 come	mark
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 invited	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 feast	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 feast	det
36	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	last	to-infinitive	all kinds of good things	all Christmas tide				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tide=Value
2	invite	past	Man		Man's friends		day	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient
3	come	to-infinitive	Man not said here			a feast		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=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 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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