The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 20

So they sat down, and when Dullhead brought out his cake he found it had turned into a fine rich cake, and the sour beer into excellent wine.

Who acts: cake, Dullhead, beer · What happens: sit down, bring out, find, turn · To what, where: excellent wine, cake, fine rich cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, Dullhead, beer), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brought	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 brought	advmod
8	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 brought	nsubj
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 brought	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cake	nmod:poss
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cake	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	aux
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 found	ccomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 cake	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cake	det
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cake	amod
21	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cake	amod
22	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 beer	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beer	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beer	det
26	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beer	amod
27	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 wine	case
29	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wine	amod
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	cake		excellent wine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring out	past	Dullhead	Dullhead's cake		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
3	find	past	Dullhead	Dullhead's cake not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cake=Attribute clause=Theme
4	turn	past · perfect	beer		a fine rich cake	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cake=Trajectory

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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