The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 137

Whereupon she handed Celandine a small piece of black bread and uncovered the dish, which contained two dried plums.

Who acts: house, dish · What happens: hand, uncover, contain, dry · To what, where: small piece, Celandine, dish, two dried plums

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, dish), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	3 handed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 handed	nsubj
3	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bread	case
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bread	amod
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 uncovered	cc
12	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 handed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dish	det
14	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uncovered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 contained	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 contained	nsubj
17	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dish	acl:relcl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 plums	nummod
19	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 plums	amod
20	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 contained	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hand	past	house	a small piece of black bread	Celandine	whereupon property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Destination piece=Theme
2	uncover	past	house not said here	the dish			tree rules
3	contain	past	the dish	two dried plums			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plum=Theme
4	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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