The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 13

And the king was delighted, and emptied them himself on the silver dish, and gave five florins to Ciccu, and offered besides to take him into his service.

Who acts: king, Ciccu · What happens: be, empty, give, offer, take, service · To what, where: Figs, silver dish, five florins, Ciccu, besides, service

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Ciccu), 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	_	5 delighted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 emptied	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 emptied	cc
8	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 emptied	obj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 emptied	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 dish	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dish	det
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dish	compound
14	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 emptied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	parataxis
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 florins	nummod
19	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Ciccu	case
21	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 florins	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 offered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 offered	cc
24	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
25	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 offered	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 offered	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 service	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 service	nmod:poss
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king				delighted property	tree rules
2	empty	past	the king not said here	Figs = fig		the silver dish	king obl	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
3	give	past		five florins	Ciccu			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent florin=Theme to ciccu=Recipient
4	offer	past		besides				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent beside=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive		Ciccu		Ciccu's service		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into service=Destination
6	service		Ciccu					nom service «act transitive»: poss=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.

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