The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 71

And she placed a huge dish before him of savoury steaming meat, which greatly pleased him, and made him forget his idea of an Englishman being in the castle.

Who acts: voice, elephant, Englishman · What happens: place, steam, make, forget, be · To what, where: huge dish, elephant, idea

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 (voice, elephant, Englishman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 placed	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dish	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dish	amod
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 meat	case
10	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meat	amod
11	steaming	steam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 meat	amod
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pleased	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 pleased	nsubj
15	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	16 pleased	advmod
16	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meat	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pleased	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 idea	nmod:poss
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 forget	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	31 castle	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 castle	det
27	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 castle	nsubj
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 castle	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 castle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 castle	det
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 idea	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	voice	a huge dish	before elephant	of savoury steaming meat	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme before he=Destination
2	steam	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	voice not said here	elephant			tree rules
4	forget	infinitive	elephant not said here	elephant's idea			tree rules
5	is	gerund	Englishman			of a castle	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.

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