The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 58
When the dinner was placed before the emperor he found it so nice that he ate much more than was good for him.
Who acts: two · What happens: place, find, eat, be · To what, where: dinner, more
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 placed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dinner | det |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | advcl |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 nice | advmod |
| 13 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 ate | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ate | nsubj |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nice | advcl |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 ate | obj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 good | case |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 good | cop |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 more | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 good | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the dinner | before the emperor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before emperor=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | two | dinner | nice property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | eat | past | two | more | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | two not said here | for two; good 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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