The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 84

When he came home at midday, he found a table laid out with the most dainty food, and he had only to sit down and enjoy himself to his heart’s content.

Who acts: speck · What happens: come, find, lay out, have, sit down, enjoy · To what, where: midday, table, speck

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speck), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midday	case
6	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 table	det
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 table	acl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 laid	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	18 food	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 food	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 dainty	advmod
17	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 food	amod
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 sit	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sit	mark
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 sit	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 enjoy	cc
28	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sit	conj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 enjoy	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 content	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heart	nmod:poss
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 content	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 heart	case
34	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 enjoy	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	speck		midday	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location
2	find	past	speck	a table			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic
3	lay out	participle		a table not said here		with the dainty food	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	speck				tree rules
5	sit down	to-infinitive	speck not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	enjoy	infinitive	speck not said here	speck		to speck's heart's content	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus

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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