The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 65

One day the two at home prepared a fine feast, and when they were all assembled they sat down and ate and drank and made merry.

Who acts: One day, brothers · What happens: prepare, assemble, sit down, eat, drink, make · To what, where: fine feast, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, brothers), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 two	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 feast	det
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feast	amod
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 assembled	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assembled	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 assembled	aux:pass
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 assembled	advmod
17	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sat	advcl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prepared	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ate	cc
22	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drank	cc
24	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ate	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drank	conj
27	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 made	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	One day at home	a fine feast		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient
2	assemble	past · passive		brothers = brother	all property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	sit down	past	brothers = brother			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past	brothers = brother not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	past	brothers = brother not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	brothers = brother not said here		merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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