The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 17

He had a fair and beloved wife and several lovely children: and as his neighbours, the little people, were very friendly towards him, they bestowed on him many excellent and precious gifts.

Who acts: knight, wife · What happens: have, be, bestow · To what, where: fair wife, many excellent gifts

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 beloved	cc
6	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fair	conj
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 children	cc
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wife	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 friendly	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 friendly	cc
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 neighbours	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neighbours	nmod:poss
16	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 friendly	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 people	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 neighbours	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 neighbours	punct
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 friendly	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 friendly	advmod
24	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 friendly	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bestowed	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bestowed	nsubj
29	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 friendly	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bestowed	obl
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gifts	amod
33	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gifts	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 precious	cc
35	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 excellent	conj
36	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bestowed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	knight	a fair wife and several lovely children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	is	past			as knight's neighbours and the little people; towards knight; friendly property	tree rules
3	bestow	past	wife	many excellent gifts	on knight	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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/17/