The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 15
She set food before him, and was so delighted with his conversation that she forgot the old woman’s caution, and lingered for hours.
Who acts: youngest, prince · What happens: set, be, forget, linger, converse · To what, where: food, caution
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delighted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delighted | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delighted | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 delighted | advmod |
| 10 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 set | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 conversation | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 13 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delighted | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delighted | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caution | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 woman | case |
| 21 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lingered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lingered | cc |
| 24 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 forgot | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 hours | case |
| 26 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lingered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | youngest = young | food | before prince | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | youngest = young not said here | with prince's conversation; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | youngest = young | the old woman's caution | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | linger | participle | youngest = young not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | converse | prince | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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