The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 86

The master sat at table alone, and invited neither his new servant nor the maid to eat with him.

Who acts: master · What happens: sit, invite, eat · To what, where: table, new servant

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 table	case
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 invited	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 invited	cc
9	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 servant	cc:preconj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 servant	nmod:poss
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 servant	amod
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 invited	obj
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 maid	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maid	det
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 servant	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 maid	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the master		table	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	invite	past	the master not said here	master's new servant nor the maid			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient
3	eat	to-infinitive	the master not said here			with master	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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