The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 12

Presently, when supper-time came, Bruno had a delicious egg, and he threw the shell to Felicia, saying:

Who acts: supper time, Bruno · What happens: come, have, throw, say · To what, where: delicious egg, shell, Felicia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper time, Bruno), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Presently	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
4	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 supper	punct
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saying	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 egg	det
12	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 egg	amod
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	nsubj
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shell	det
19	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Felicia	case
21	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	supper time			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Bruno	a delicious egg			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
3	throw	past	Bruno	the shell	Felicia		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shell=Theme to felicia=Destination
4	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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