The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 45
By the orders of the bride, they only served her father at the wedding breakfast bread without salt, and meat without seasoning.
Who acts: daughters, meat · What happens: serve, season, order · To what, where: father, wedding breakfast bread, bride
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 (daughters, meat), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 orders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 orders | det |
| 3 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 served | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bride | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bride | det |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 orders | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 orders | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 served | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 served | advmod |
| 10 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 served | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 bread | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bread | det |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bread | compound |
| 16 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bread | compound |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 served | obl |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 salt | case |
| 19 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 served | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meat | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 meat | cc |
| 22 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 served | parataxis |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 seasoning | mark |
| 24 | seasoning | season | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 meat | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | daughters = daughter | Princess's father | the wedding breakfast bread | by the orders of the bride; without salt | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Attribute | ||
| 2 | season | gerund | meat not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | the bride | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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