The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 60

The wife could say nothing, but she put the food at once on the table, and they ate the fish, the roast meat, and the cakes.

Who acts: wife, cakes · What happens: say, put, eat · To what, where: nothing, food, table, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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, cakes), 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	4 say	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 put	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 table	det
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ate	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	nsubj
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fish	det
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ate	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 meat	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 meat	det
25	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meat	compound
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fish	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cakes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cakes	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cakes	det
30	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ate	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	the wife	nothing			tree rules
2	put	past	wife	the food	the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme on table=Destination
3	eat	past	cakes = cake	the fish and the roast meat		the cakes obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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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