The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 70

The Ogre presently asked if supper was ready and the wine drawn, and then sat himself down to table.

Who acts: Ogre, supper, wine · What happens: ask, be, draw, sit down · To what, where: ogre

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogre, supper, wine), 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	2 Ogre	det
2	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
3	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 ready	mark
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ready	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	cop
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asked	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drawn	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wine	det
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drawn	nsubj
12	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ready	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sat	advmod
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 sat	obj
18	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 table	case
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Ogre			presently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	supper			ready property	tree rules
3	draw	participle	the wine				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	past	the Ogre not said here	ogre	then	to table	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/33/70/