The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 45
His grandmother laid the table, and brought out food and drink till he was satisfied, and they ate and drank together.
Who acts: grandmother, stone, food · What happens: lay, bring out, be, eat, drink · To what, where: table, food
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, stone, food), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 brought | compound:prt |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drink | cc |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 food | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 satisfied | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 satisfied | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 satisfied | cop |
| 16 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brought | advcl |
| 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 | 3 laid | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drank | cc |
| 22 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ate | conj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 drank | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | stone's grandmother | the table | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Result | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past | stone's grandmother not said here | food and drink | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | stone | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | past | food not said here | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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