The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 30

When the beasts were satisfied, the maiden sat down beside the old man at the table and ate what was left for her.

Who acts: beasts, maiden · What happens: be, sit down, eat, leave

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 (beasts, maiden), 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	5 satisfied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beasts	det
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 satisfied	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	cop
5	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 left	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ate	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the beasts	satisfied property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	the maiden	beside the old man at the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside man=Location
3	eat	past	the maiden not said here		tree rules
4	leave	past · passive		for maiden	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for she=Recipient

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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