The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 18

On the table were the most delicious cherries, and the old woman let Gerda eat as many as she liked, while she combed her hair with a gold comb as she ate.

Who acts: old woman, Gerda · What happens: be, let, eat, like, comb · To what, where: delicious cherries, table, Gerda, many, hair

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Gerda), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cherries	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cherries	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cherries	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 delicious	advmod
7	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cherries	amod
8	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cherries	parataxis
15	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eat	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 liked	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 liked	nsubj
21	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 many	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 combed	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 combed	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 combed	nsubj
25	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	parataxis
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 combed	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 comb	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 comb	det
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comb	compound
31	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 combed	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 ate	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ate	nsubj
34	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 combed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cherries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the delicious cherries	the table		tree rules
2	let	infinitive	the old woman	Gerda			tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	Gerda not said here	many			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
4	like	past	Gerda				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	comb	past	Gerda	Gerda's hair		with a gold comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
6	eat	past	Gerda				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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