The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 33

The loaf, which was a very little one, was brought to the King’s son, who ate it with pleasure.

Who acts: loaf, son · What happens: be, bring, eat · To what, where: little one, loaf, son

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loaf, son), 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 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loaf	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 loaf	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux:pass
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 son	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 King	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 ate	nsubj
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 son	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ate	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 pleasure	case
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ate	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the loaf	a little one			tree rules
2	bring	past · passive		the loaf	the King's son		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to son=Destination
3	eat	past	the King's son	loaf		with pleasure	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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