The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 51

Then, for the rest of the wedding feast they gave him bread made with salt, and dishes with seasoning, and he said they were the very best he had ever eaten.

Who acts: words, King · What happens: give, make, say, be, eat · To what, where: bread, King · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (words, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 rest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 feast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feast	compound
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bread	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 salt	case
16	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dishes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dishes	cc
19	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 seasoning	case
21	seasoning	seasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dishes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 best	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 best	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 best	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 best	advmod
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 said	ccomp
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 eaten	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 eaten	aux
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 eaten	advmod
34	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 best	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	words = word	bread	King	then	for the rest of the wedding feast; dishes with seasoning obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme for rest=Asset
2	make	participle		bread not said here			with salt	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	words = word				good property	tree rules
5	eat	past · perfect	King			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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