The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 55

Meantime his cousin felt hungry, so she called her daughters, and all four sat down to table.

Who acts: Meantime, four · What happens: feel, call, sit down · To what, where: daughters · 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 (Meantime, four), 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	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 called	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughters	nmod:poss
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 four	det
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 table	case
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Meantime		hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	call	past	Meantime	Meantime's daughters		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
3	sit down	past	all four		to table	vn assuming_position-50 «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 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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