The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 119

She then made ready the pie, and after eating and drinking heartily myself, I was just taking my leave of the young woman when we observed the giant coming through the castle gates.

Who acts: woman, I, we · What happens: make, eat, drink, be, observe, come · To what, where: pie, myself, giant, castle gates

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, we), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pie	det
6	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taking	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 taking	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drinking	cc
12	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 eating	conj
13	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	14 myself	advmod
14	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 drinking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 taking	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taking	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 taking	advmod
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	parataxis
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 leave	nmod:poss
21	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 woman	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	nmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 observed	advmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 observed	nsubj
28	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taking	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
30	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 observed	obj
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 observed	advcl
32	through	through	ADP	_	35 gates	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 gates	det
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gates	compound
35	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 coming	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	woman	the pie		then	ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product
2	eat	gerund	I not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	gerund	I not said here	myself				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	I				take property	tree rules
5	observe	past	we	the giant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
6	come	gerund	we not said here		the castle gates			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial_Location

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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