The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 25

Before they set to work, however, they sat down to table, and the landlord and the old witch joined them, and they all ate some broth in which the flesh of the raven had been stewed down.

Who acts: murderers, landlord · What happens: set, work, sit down, join, eat, stew down · To what, where: murderers, broth, flesh

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murderers, landlord), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 set	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 table	case
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 joined	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 joined	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 landlord	det
17	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 joined	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 witch	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 witch	amod
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 landlord	conj
22	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 joined	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ate	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ate	nsubj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 ate	advmod
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 broth	det
30	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ate	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 stewed	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flesh	det
34	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stewed	nsubj:pass
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 raven	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 raven	det
37	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flesh	nmod
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stewed	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 stewed	aux:pass
40	stewed	stew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 broth	acl:relcl
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 stewed	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	present	murderers = murderer		however property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	murderers = murderer not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	murderers = murderer		to table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	join	past	the landlord and the old witch	murderers = murderer		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	eat	past	murderers = murderer	some broth		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broth=Patient
6	stew down	past · perfect · passive		the flesh of the raven	in some broth	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in which=Instrument

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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