The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 107

Then twelve roasted oxen and twelve tons of bread were brought alongside of the ship, and at one sitting the glutton had devoured it all.

Who acts: twelve · What happens: roast, bring, sit, devour · To what, where: oxen, twelve tons, glutton

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 roasted	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 roasted	nsubj
3	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roasted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tons	nummod
7	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tons	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux:pass
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 roasted	conj
12	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	15 ship	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ship	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ship	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 devoured	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 devoured	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 devoured	obl
20	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 devoured	nsubj:pass
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 glutton	det
22	glutton	glutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 devoured	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 devoured	aux
24	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 roasted	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 devoured	obj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 it	det
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past	twelve	oxen	then		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ox=Patient
2	bring	past · passive		twelve tons of bread		alongside the ship	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	sit	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	devour	past · perfect · passive		glutton		at one	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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