The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 15

When this was done, they both sat down to supper, and while they were eating the boy asked the big man: ‘What is your name, father?’

Who acts: meadows · What happens: do, sit down, eat, ask, be · To what, where: this, boy, big man, name

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meadows), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sat	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 supper	case
11	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 eating	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eating	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eating	aux
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 asked	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eating	obj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 name	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 What	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 name	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 name	cop
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 name	nmod:poss
29	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 name	appos
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 father	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 name	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	sit down	past	meadows = meadow			to supper; both property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past · progressive	meadows = meadow	the boy			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	meadows = meadow not said here		the big man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
5	is a	present		your name			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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