The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 27

Then he took the wood, kindled the fire, and very soon set a large dinner before the old man, who was very hungry, and had forgotten for the moment all about his enemy.

Who acts: peasant, old man · What happens: take, kindle, set, be, forget · To what, where: wood, fire, large dinner

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, old 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kindled	punct
7	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kindled	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 set	cc
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 set	advmod
14	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dinner	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dinner	amod
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	21 man	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hungry	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hungry	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hungry	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 hungry	advmod
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 forgotten	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 forgotten	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forgotten	aux
30	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 moment	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 moment	det
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 forgotten	obl
34	all	all	ADV	_	37 enemy	advmod
35	about	about	ADP	_	37 enemy	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 enemy	nmod:poss
37	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 forgotten	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	peasant	the wood	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	kindle	past	peasant not said here	the fire			vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
3	set	infinitive	peasant not said here	a large dinner	before the old man	soon property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme before man=Destination
4	is	past	the old man			hungry property	tree rules
5	forget	past · perfect	peasant not said here		moment	about peasant's enemy	tree rules

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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