The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 57
Then he caressed Graciosa, and made her sit down to supper with him, and they were as happy as possible.
Who acts: King, Graciosa, walls · What happens: caress, make, sit down, supper, be · To what, where: Graciosa
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Graciosa, walls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 caressed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caressed | nsubj |
| 3 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caressed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caressed | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 sit | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 supper | mark |
| 12 | supper | supper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sit | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 supper | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happy | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happy | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 happy | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happy | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 happy | advmod |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caressed | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 possible | mark |
| 22 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 happy | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | King | Graciosa | then | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graciosa=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | make | past | King not said here | Graciosa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit down | infinitive | Graciosa not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | supper | to-infinitive | Graciosa not said here | with King | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | walls = wall | happy property | 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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