The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 74

She fed him well, and when evening came put him back in the wardrobe.

Who acts: giantess, evening · What happens: feed, come, put back · To what, where: Englishman, wardrobe

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 (giantess, evening), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	advcl
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wardrobe	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wardrobe	det
15	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	past	giantess		Englishman		well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	come	past	evening					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put back	infinitive	giantess not said here	Englishman		the wardrobe		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wardrobe=Destination

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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