The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 109

And when they came he gave them some of the good cabbage to eat, so that they became human again.

Who acts: others, Hunter · What happens: come, give, eat, become · To what, where: others

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Hunter), 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	_	6 gave	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 cabbage	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 cabbage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cabbage	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cabbage	amod
12	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cabbage	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 became	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	conj
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 became	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	others = other				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	Hunter	others = other			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	Hunter not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become	past	others = other		again	human property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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