The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 37

The smith went into the house and took a whole loaf, which he cut into two slices and put butter and cheese between them, and this he gave to Hans.

Who acts: smith, this · What happens: go, take, cut, put, give · To what, where: house, whole loaf, two slices, butter, Hans

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 loaf	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 loaf	amod
11	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cut	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cut	nsubj
15	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 loaf	acl:relcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 slices	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 slices	nummod
18	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cut	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cut	conj
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cheese	cc
23	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 butter	conj
24	between	between	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cheese	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 gave	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Hans	case
32	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the smith			the house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	take	past	the smith not said here	a whole loaf			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme
3	cut	past	smith	a whole loaf		two slices	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent which=Material into slice=Product
4	put	infinitive	smith not said here	butter and cheese between butter			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent butter=Goal
5	give	past	this		Hans		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hans=Recipient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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