The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 8

The Giant sat down, and soon his wife brought up a roasted bullock on a large dish, and they began their supper.

Who acts: Giant, wife, bones · What happens: sit down, bring up, roast, begin · To what, where: roasted bullock, large dish, supper

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, wife, bones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 brought	advmod
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 brought	nsubj
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 brought	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bullock	det
13	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 bullock	amod
14	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 dish	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dish	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dish	amod
18	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 supper	nmod:poss
24	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 began	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the Giant				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring up	past	Giant's wife	a roasted bullock	a large dish	soon property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bullock=Patient
3	roast	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	begin	past	bones = bone	bones's supper			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Eventuality

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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