The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 51

The wife received them both very kindly, spread a long table, and gave them a large plate of porridge.

Who acts: wife · What happens: receive, spread, give · To what, where: meat, long table, large plate

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	appos
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kindly	advmod
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
9	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 received	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 table	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 table	amod
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plate	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 plate	amod
19	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 porridge	case
21	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 plate	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the wife	meat		kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	spread	infinitive	the wife not said here	a long table			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location table=Theme
3	give	past	the wife not said here	a large plate of porridge	meat		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plate=Theme

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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