The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 38
This time Corva received him in the most friendly manner, and set a sumptuous repast before him.
Who acts: Corva · What happens: receive, set · To what, where: Iwanich, friendly manner, sumptuous repast
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corva), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Corva | Corva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 manner | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 friendly | advmod |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 manner | amod |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 received | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 repast | det |
| 15 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 repast | amod |
| 16 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Corva | Iwanich | the friendly manner | time | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in manner=Location | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Corva not said here | a sumptuous repast | before Iwanich | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent repast=Theme before he=Destination |
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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