The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 11

Now that he had made them rich, they gave him every day all that a dog likes best to eat, and the cushions on which he lay were fit for a prince.

Who acts: supper, pieces, dog, cushions · What happens: make, give, like, eat, lie, be · To what, where: pieces, supper, best, cushions

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, pieces, dog, cushions), 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	5 made	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl:unmarked
14	all	all	ADV	_	18 likes	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 likes	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 likes	nsubj
18	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	advcl
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 likes	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 likes	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fit	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fit	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cushions	det
25	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fit	nsubj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lay	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cushions	acl:relcl
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fit	cop
31	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gave	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 prince	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 prince	det
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fit	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	supper	pieces = piece			now	rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
2	give	past	pieces = piece		supper		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	like	present	a dog	best				all property	tree rules
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	a dog not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie	past	supper			the cushions			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
6	is	past	the cushions					for a prince; fit 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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