The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 135

When he came to a mound he sat down on the east side of it and ate the dry bread which his wife had given him to take with him.

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

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 (man, wife), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mound	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mound	det
6	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
12	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 side	amod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 side	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bread	det
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bread	amod
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 given	obj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 bread	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 given	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 given	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	man			a mound		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mound=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	man			the east side of side		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
3	eat	past	man not said here	the dry bread				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
4	give	past · perfect	man's wife	the dry bread	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive	man's wife not said here				with man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/16/135/