The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 14
and a beautifully spread table will stand before you, with the most delicious food on it, so that you can eat as much as you want.
Who acts: spread table, you · What happens: spread, stand, eat, want · To what, where: much
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spread table, you), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stand | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 3 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 4 spread | advmod |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 table | amod |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stand | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 food | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 food | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 delicious | advmod |
| 14 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 food | amod |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stand | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 food | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eat | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 eat | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | aux |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stand | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eat | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 want | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 want | nsubj |
| 28 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 much | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | participle | beautifully property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | future | a spread table | before you | with the delicious food on food | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before you=Location | |||
| 3 | eat | can | you | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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