The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 61

There was some straw in a corner, which was all she had for a bed, and they gave her a very little bit of black bread to eat.

Who acts: straw, corner · What happens: be, give, eat · To what, where: corner, little bit, straw

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 (straw, corner), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 straw	det
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 corner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bed	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bed	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bed	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	16 bed	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bed	aux
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 bed	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bed	det
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 corner	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	nsubj
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bit	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 little	advmod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bit	amod
25	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bread	case
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bread	amod
28	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bit	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bit	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	some straw			a corner and a bed; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
2	is	past	a corner and a bed				for a bed; all property	tree rules
3	give	past	corner	a little bit of black bread	straw			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bit=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	corner not said here	a little bit of black bread not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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