The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 78

Now they seated themselves at the table, and one of them took up a goblet filled with wine, and said, ‘A health to my father!’

Who acts: fountains, one · What happens: seat, take up, fill, say · To what, where: fountains, table, goblet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fountains, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seated	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 took	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 goblet	det
16	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 goblet	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 wine	case
19	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 health	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 health	punct
25	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 health	det
26	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 father	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 health	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 health	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past	fountains = fountain	fountains = fountain	the table	now		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value
2	take up	past	one of fountains	a goblet				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme
3	fill	participle		a goblet not said here			with wine	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wine=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	past	fountains = fountain not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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