The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 69

It was brought to the King, who ate it, and liked it as much as the last time.

What happens: bring, eat, like · To what, where: soup

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux:pass
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ate	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ate	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ate	nsubj
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 liked	cc
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ate	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	obj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 liked	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 much	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive	soup		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
2	eat	past	soup	to the King	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	like	past	soup		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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