The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 135

So he laid his piece of bread in the girl’s hand, and saw her eat it up eagerly.

Who acts: Darling, girl · What happens: lay, see, eat up · To what, where: piece, hand

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, girl), 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	_	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 piece	nmod:poss
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 girl	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saw	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 eat	compound:prt
20	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Darling	Darling's piece of bread	the girl's hand		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Destination
2	see	past	Darling not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	eat up	infinitive	girl	piece		eagerly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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