The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 20

That evening Tubby and his son ate the golden apples at supper, and thought them delicious.

Who acts: evening · What happens: eat, think · To what, where: golden apples, supper, apples

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
3	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 son	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Tubby	conj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 apples	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 apples	amod
10	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 supper	case
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ate	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	obj
17	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	that evening	the golden apples		supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	that evening not said here	apples = apple				delicious property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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