The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 96

He told his story to the little bride, who, after giving him some food and drink, hid him with his bird beneath the bed.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, give, hide · To what, where: story, little bride, food, man, bed · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 story	nmod:poss
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 bride	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bride	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bride	amod
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 who	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bride	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 who	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 giving	mark
13	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 giving	iobj
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 food	det
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 giving	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drink	cc
18	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hid	punct
20	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hid	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 bird	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bird	nmod:poss
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hid	obl
25	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	27 bed	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bed	det
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hid	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	man's story	the little bride			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to bride=Recipient
2	give	gerund	man not said here	some food and drink	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
3	hide	past	man not said here	man		the bed	with man's bird	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient beneath bed=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 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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