The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 17

She then set food before him, and after that showed him to the room where the others were.

Who acts: need, others · What happens: set, show, be · To what, where: food, plenty

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, others), 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 set	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 showed	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 showed	obl
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showed	iobj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 were	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 others	det
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 were	nsubj
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 room	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	need	food		before plenty; then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before he=Destination
2	show	past	need not said here		plenty	after that	to the room	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to room=Recipient
3	be	past	the others					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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