The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 119

His wife again gave him some dry bread to eat, and when he grew tired and hungry he sat down on the east side of a mound and began to eat it.

Who acts: wife, man · What happens: give, eat, grow, sit down, begin · To what, where: dry bread, man, east side, bread

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, man), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 bread	det
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bread	amod
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bread	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 grew	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hungry	cc
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tired	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sat	compound:prt
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
24	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 side	amod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 mound	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mound	det
28	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eat	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	man's wife	some dry bread	man		again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	man's wife not said here	some dry bread not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	man					tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	past	man			the east side of a mound			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
5	begin	past	man not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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