The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 49

He tasted it, and found the apple quite as luscious as it had been in his dream.

Who acts: gardener, fruit · What happens: taste, find, be · To what, where: fruit, apple, dream

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (gardener, fruit), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tasted	nsubj
2	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tasted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tasted	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 apple	det
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 luscious	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 luscious	advmod
11	luscious	luscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	xcomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 dream	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dream	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dream	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 dream	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dream	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dream	nmod:poss
18	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 luscious	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	taste	past	gardener	fruit			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
2	find	past	gardener not said here	the apple		luscious property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Topic
3	is	past · perfect	fruit		gardener's dream		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 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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