The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 101

She invited John to come in, and set before him some wine and fried fish, and John ate and drank and felt comforted, and he told his adventures to the little fisher-girl.

Who acts: girl, John · What happens: invite, come in, set, fry, eat, drink · To what, where: John, wine, adventures, little fisher girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, John), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 invited	nsubj
2	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invited	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 invited	xcomp
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 set	cc
9	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	obl
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 wine	det
13	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fish	cc
15	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fish	amod
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wine	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ate	cc
19	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ate	nsubj
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 invited	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drank	cc
22	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ate	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drank	conj
25	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 felt	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 invited	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 adventures	nmod:poss
31	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	37 girl	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 girl	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girl	amod
35	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 girl	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 fisher	punct
37	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	invite	past	girl	John			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	John not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set	infinitive	John not said here	some wine and fried fish		before John	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wine=Theme before he=Destination
4	fry	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	eat	past	John				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	past	John not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	feel	past	John not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	comfort	participle	John not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	tell speech: assert	past	John	John's adventures	the little fisher girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to girl=Recipient
10	adventure		John				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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 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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