The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 52

In the morning the old woman gave him milk and bread for his breakfast, which he ate contentedly, rejoicing that there was nothing to be gathered, or counted, or cooked, and when he had finished he begged her to tell him who she was.

Who acts: old woman, milk, nothing, Prince, woman · What happens: give, eat, rejoice, be, gather, count · To what, where: Prince, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (old woman, milk, nothing, Prince), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bread	cc
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 milk	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 breakfast	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 breakfast	nmod:poss
14	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 milk	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 ate	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gave	conj
19	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	18 ate	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rejoicing	punct
21	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ate	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 was	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rejoicing	ccomp
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 was	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 gathered	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 gathered	aux:pass
28	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 nothing	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 counted	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 counted	cc
31	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gathered	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cooked	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 cooked	cc
34	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 counted	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 finished	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 finished	cc
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 finished	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 finished	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 finished	aux
40	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 begged	advcl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 begged	nsubj
42	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gave	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 begged	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 tell	mark
45	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 begged	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tell	iobj
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	45 tell	ccomp
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 who	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 who	cop
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old woman	Prince		morning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	eat	past	milk for Prince's breakfast and bread				contentedly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	rejoice	gerund	milk for Prince's breakfast and bread not said here					tree rules
4	be	past	nothing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	gather	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»
6	count	participle	nothing not said here					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
7	cook	participle	nothing not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	finish	past · perfect	Prince					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	beg speech: request	past	Prince	woman				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
10	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
11	is a	past	woman					tree rules

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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