The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 93

Besides, the master was stretched on a bench by the oven after his huge meal, and would have heard everything.

Who acts: oven · What happens: stretch, hear · To what, where: master, bench, everything

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 (oven), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 stretched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stretched	aux:pass
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bench	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bench	det
9	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 oven	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oven	det
12	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	obl
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 meal	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 meal	nmod:poss
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meal	amod
16	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 oven	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 heard	aux
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stretched	conj
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 heard	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	past · passive	the oven after master's huge meal	the master		a bench			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	hear	would · perfect	the oven after master's huge meal not said here	everything					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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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