The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 3

When the supper was ended he bade his wife bring him his hen that laid the golden eggs.

Who acts: supper, Jack, wife, hen · What happens: be, bade, bring, lay · To what, where: hen, Jack, golden eggs

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, Jack, wife, hen), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 ended	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 supper	det
3	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	cop
5	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bade	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bade	nsubj
7	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	nsubj
10	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bade	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bring	obj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hen	nmod:poss
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bring	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hen	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eggs	det
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eggs	amod
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laid	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the supper			ended property	tree rules
2	bade	past	Jack				tree rules
3	bring	infinitive	Jack's wife	Jack's hen	Jack		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination hen=Theme
4	lay	past	Jack's hen	the golden eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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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