The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 72

a table stands before her, spread with the best food, much better than we have; and when she has had enough, she says,

Who acts: table, we, goat · What happens: stand, spread, have, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (table, we, goat), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stands	nsubj
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stands	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct
7	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 stands	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 food	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 better	advmod
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 food	amod
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 had	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 had	aux
23	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 stands	parataxis
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 had	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 says	nsubj
27	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 had	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a table	before goat		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
2	spread	participle	a table not said here		with the best food	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	we			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	present · perfect	goat		enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	goat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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