The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 49
At the banquet the Prince invited her to sit next him in the place of honour; but the witch’s daughter gnawed the bones under the table.
Who acts: Prince, girl, daughter · What happens: invite, sit, gnaw · To what, where: girl, banquet, place, bones, table
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, girl, daughter), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 banquet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 banquet | det |
| 3 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invited | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 invited | nsubj |
| 6 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 invited | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sit | mark |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invited | xcomp |
| 10 | next | next | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sit | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gnawed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 gnawed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 witch | det |
| 20 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 witch | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gnawed | nsubj |
| 23 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 invited | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bones | det |
| 25 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gnawed | obj |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gnawed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | the Prince | girl | the banquet | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the place of honour | next Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent next he=Location | |||
| 3 | gnaw | past | the witch's daughter | the bones | the table | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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 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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