The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 19

The cousin had three daughters, who laid out a tempting supper, but the man would eat nothing, and said to his cousin, ‘Your supper is bad.’

Who acts: cousin, three daughters, man, supper · What happens: have, lay out, eat, say, be · To what, where: three daughters, tempting supper, nothing, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cousin, three daughters, man, supper), 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 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 laid	nsubj
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daughters	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 laid	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 supper	det
11	tempting	tempting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 supper	compound
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 cousin	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cousin	nmod:poss
25	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bad	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 bad	punct
28	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 supper	nmod:poss
29	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bad	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bad	cop
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cousin	three daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	lay out	past	three daughters	a tempting supper			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Result
3	eat	would	the man	nothing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past			man's cousin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cousin=Recipient
5	is	present	Your supper			bad property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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