The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 78
Supper was soon spread for her under a shady tree, and she invited the Prince to share the cream and brown bread which the old woman provided.
Who acts: Princess, Prince, cream · What happens: spread, invite, share, provide · To what, where: Supper, shady tree, Prince, cream
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Princess, Prince, cream), 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 | Supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 spread | advmod |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spread | obl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 invited | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 invited | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 invited | nsubj |
| 14 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 invited | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 share | mark |
| 18 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 invited | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cream | det |
| 20 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 share | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bread | cc |
| 22 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bread | amod |
| 23 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cream | conj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 provided | nsubj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 provided | nsubj |
| 28 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cream | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | Supper | a shady tree | for Princess; soon property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | invite | past | Princess | the Prince | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | the cream and brown bread | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | provide | past | the cream and brown bread | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
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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