The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 33

She was filling up his glass, while he stuck his fork into the fish which was his favourite dish.

Who acts: wife, sexton, fish · What happens: fill up, stick, be · To what, where: glass, fork, favourite dish

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, sexton, fish), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 filling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filling	aux
3	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 filling	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 glass	nmod:poss
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 filling	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuck	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 stuck	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stuck	nsubj
10	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 filling	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fork	nmod:poss
12	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 fish	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 dish	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dish	cop
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dish	nmod:poss
19	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dish	amod
20	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fish	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 filling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fill up	past · progressive	wife	sexton's glass		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
2	stick	past	sexton	sexton's fork	into the fish	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fork=Theme into fish=Destination
3	is a	past	the fish	sexton's favourite dish		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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