The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 55

We granted his request with ready courtesy, and during supper he entertained us with most agreeable conversation, mingled with amusing anecdotes.

Who acts: We, stranger · What happens: grant, entertain, mingle, request · To what, where: request, us, most agreeable conversation

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, stranger), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 granted	nsubj
2	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 request	nmod:poss
4	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 granted	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 courtesy	case
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 courtesy	amod
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 granted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entertained	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 entertained	cc
10	during	during	ADP	_	11 supper	case
11	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entertained	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 entertained	nsubj
13	entertained	entertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 granted	conj
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 entertained	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 conversation	case
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 conversation	amod
17	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 conversation	amod
18	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entertained	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mingled	punct
20	mingled	mingle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 conversation	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 anecdotes	case
22	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 anecdotes	amod
23	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mingled	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grant	past	We	stranger's request		with ready courtesy	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
2	entertain	past	stranger	us	during supper	with most agreeable conversation	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
3	mingle	participle		most agreeable conversation not said here		with amusing anecdotes	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with anecdote=Co-Patient
4	request		stranger				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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