The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 165
On the table he saw a slice of bread lying, and, being hungry, he ate it before going to sleep.
Who acts: husband, slice · What happens: see, lie, be, eat, go, sleep · To what, where: slice, table, bread
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, slice), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 slice | det |
| 7 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bread | case |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slice | nmod |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 slice | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hungry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hungry | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hungry | punct |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hungry | cop |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ate | nsubj |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ate | obj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ate | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sleep | mark |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | husband | a slice of bread | the table | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slice=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | a slice of bread not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | husband not said here | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | husband | slice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | gerund | husband not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | husband not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | slice | bread | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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