The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 72

When the dinner hour approached all three went home and asked their wives if the goat had returned with the necessary provisions, and had told them what they wished prepared for their meal.

Who acts: dinner hour, three, goats · What happens: approach, go, ask, return, tell, wish · To what, where: wives, goat, goats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner hour, three, goats), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 approached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hour	compound
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approached	nsubj
5	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 three	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wives	nmod:poss
13	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 asked	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 returned	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 goat	det
16	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 returned	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 returned	aux
18	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 asked	ccomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 provisions	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 provisions	det
21	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 provisions	amod
22	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 returned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	aux
26	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 went	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 told	obj
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wished	nsubj
30	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
31	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wished	xcomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 meal	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 meal	nmod:poss
34	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prepared	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the dinner hour				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	all three			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	all three not said here		goats's wives		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	return a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the goat		with the necessary provisions	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect			goats = goat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=Topic
6	wish	past	goats = goat				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	prepare not said to happen	participle	goats = goat not said here			for goats's meal	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for meal=Beneficiary

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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