The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 79

This he was delighted to do, and having first fetched from his own garden all the strawberries, cherries, nuts and flowers he could find, they sat down together and were very merry.

Who acts: This, supper, flowers · What happens: be, do, fetch, find, sit down · To what, where: strawberries, own garden, flowers

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 (This, supper, flowers), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 delighted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fetched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fetched	cc
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fetched	aux
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 having	advmod
11	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 delighted	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 garden	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 garden	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 garden	amod
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fetched	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 strawberries	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strawberries	det
18	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fetched	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cherries	punct
20	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strawberries	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nuts	punct
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strawberries	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flowers	cc
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 strawberries	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 flowers	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	parataxis
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
32	together	together	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 merry	cc
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 merry	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 merry	advmod
36	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sat	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			delighted property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	This not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fetch	gerund · perfect	This not said here	all strawberries and cherries and nuts and flowers	supper's own garden		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from garden=Source
4	find	could	supper	flowers not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic
5	sit down	past	flowers = flower			down, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	flowers = flower not said here			merry 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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