The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 47

She gave him food, and when he had finished his meal she told him how his brothers had come to the town where she lived with her sisters, how they had each chosen a bride, and, taking herself with them, had started for home.

Who acts: friend, brother, brothers, sisters, taking · What happens: give, finish, tell, come, live, have · To what, where: food, brother, meal, town, chosen bride, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, brother, brothers, sisters), 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finished	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 finished	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 finished	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finished	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 finished	aux
10	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 meal	nmod:poss
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finished	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 come	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brothers	nmod:poss
18	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 lived	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 town	acl:relcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 sisters	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sisters	nmod:poss
29	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lived	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 had	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sisters	acl:relcl
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 bride	det
35	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 bride	amod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bride	det
37	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 started	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 started	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 taking	punct
41	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 started	csubj:pass
42	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 taking	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 taking	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 taking	punct
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 started	aux
47	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gave	conj
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 home	case
49	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 started	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	friend	food	brother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
2	finish	past · perfect	brother	brother's meal				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector meal=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	friend		brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come	past · perfect	brother's brothers			the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
5	live	past	friend				with friend's sisters	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sister=Location
6	have	past	sisters = sister	each chosen bride				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient
7	choose	participle						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	take	gerund		friend			with sisters = sister	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
9	start	past · perfect	taking				for home	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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