The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 43

So the mysterious hands began to bring in the supper, and first they put on the table two dishes, one containing stewed pigeons and the other a fricassee of fat mice.

Who acts: mysterious hands, hands · What happens: begin, bring, put, contain, stew · To what, where: supper, two dishes, table

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (mysterious hands, hands), 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	_	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hands	det
3	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bring	mark
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 supper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 supper	det
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 put	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 dishes	nummod
20	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pigeons	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pigeons	nummod
23	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 pigeons	amod
24	stewed	stew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 pigeons	amod
25	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dishes	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fricassee	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fricassee	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fricassee	det
30	fricassee	fricassee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pigeons	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 mice	case
32	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mice	compound
33	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fricassee	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the mysterious hands				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bring	to-infinitive	the mysterious hands not said here		the supper		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	hands = hand	two dishes and one containing stewed pigeons and a other fricassee of fat mice	the table	first property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme on table=Destination
4	contain	gerund					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	stew	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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