The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 35

The king had breakfast laid for him, and sat down at the table with him in person; he kept constantly filling his glass for him and praising him, and drinking his health.

Who acts: king · What happens: have, lay, sit down, keep, fill, praise · To what, where: breakfast, table, glass, king, health

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 breakfast	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 person	case
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
22	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	21 kept	advmod
23	filling	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 kept	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 glass	nmod:poss
25	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 filling	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 filling	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 praising	cc
29	praising	praise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 filling	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 praising	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drinking	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 drinking	cc
33	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 filling	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 health	nmod:poss
35	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drinking	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	breakfast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	lay	participle		breakfast not said here		for king	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
3	sit down	past	the king not said here		the table	with king; in person	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
4	keep	past	king			constantly property	tree rules
5	fill	gerund	king not said here	king's glass		for king	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
6	praise	gerund	king not said here	king			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	drink	gerund	king not said here	king's health			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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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