The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 25

And when at the bidding of the old man she had prepared a good supper, and the dishes were standing on the table, she said, ‘Shall I have plenty while the good beasts have nothing?

Who acts: maiden, dishes, I, good beasts · What happens: prepare, stand, say, have, bid · To what, where: good supper, bidding, table, plenty, nothing, old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, dishes, I, good beasts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 prepared	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 prepared	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 bidding	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bidding	det
5	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prepared	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bidding	nmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prepared	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prepared	aux
12	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 supper	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 supper	amod
15	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prepared	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 standing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 standing	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dishes	det
19	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 standing	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 prepared	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
30	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
33	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 have	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beasts	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beasts	amod
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 have	advcl
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 have	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prepare	past · perfect	maiden	a good supper	the bidding of the old man	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
2	stand	past · progressive	the dishes		the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	shall	I	plenty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
5	have	present	the good beasts	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	bid			the old man		nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=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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