The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 244
The next day the same thing happened, and the next, so that for three days the King got nothing at all to eat, because just when the dinner or the supper was ready to be served it mysteriously disappeared.
Who acts: next day, three days, dinner · What happens: happen, get, eat, be, serve, disappear · To what, where: nothing, all
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, three days, dinner), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 next | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 next | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 next | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happened | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 got | mark |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 got | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 days | appos |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 got | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 nothing | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ready | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 ready | mark |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 ready | advmod |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 ready | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dinner | det |
| 31 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ready | nsubj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 supper | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 supper | det |
| 34 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dinner | conj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ready | cop |
| 36 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 got | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 served | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 served | aux:pass |
| 39 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 ready | xcomp |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 disappeared | nsubj |
| 41 | mysteriously | mysteriously | ADV | _ | 42 disappeared | advmod |
| 42 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 served | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the next day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | three days | nothing | all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Asset | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | three days not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the dinner or the supper | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | serve | to-infinitive · passive | the dinner or the supper not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | disappear | past | dinner | mysteriously property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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