The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 181

They gave him the most exquisite dishes to eat, and the most delicate wines to drink; and in order to turn his head more completely, compliments and flattery were heaped on him from every side.

Who acts: fiddles · What happens: give, eat, drink, turn, heap · To what, where: exquisite dishes, Michael, head, compliments, side

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiddles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:138): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dishes	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 exquisite	advmod
6	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dishes	amod
7	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dishes	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wines	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wines	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wines	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 delicate	advmod
14	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wines	amod
15	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dishes	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 drink	mark
17	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wines	acl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 heaped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heaped	cc
20	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 turn	mark
21	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 in	fixed
22	to	to	PART	_	23 turn	mark
23	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 heaped	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turn	obj
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 completely	advmod
27	completely	completely	ADV	_	23 turn	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turn	punct
29	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heaped	nsubj:pass
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flattery	cc
31	flattery	flattery	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 compliments	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heaped	aux:pass
33	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heaped	obl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 side	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 side	det
38	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heaped	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	fiddles = fiddle	the exquisite dishes and the delicate wines	Michael			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dish=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	fiddles = fiddle not said here	the exquisite dishes and the delicate wines not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	to-infinitive	fiddles = fiddle not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	to-infinitive		Michael's head			completely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	heap	past · passive		compliments and flattery		every side	on Michael	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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