The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 27
This he did very willingly, and she set before him food and drink that he had never seen the like of before.
Who acts: This, window, Englishman · What happens: do, set, not see · To what, where: food
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 (This, window, Englishman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 willingly | advmod |
| 5 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | nsubj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obl |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 seen | advmod |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 set | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 before | det |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 before | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 before | case |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | past | window | food and drink | before Englishman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before he=Destination | |||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect | Englishman | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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