The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 17

When the farmer came home he gave his wife and the maid the things they had asked for, and then he went behind the stove and gave Jack my Hedgehog the bagpipes.

Who acts: farmer, meat · What happens: come, give, ask, go · To what, where: wife, things, stove, Hedgehog, bagpipes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, meat), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gave	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 maid	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maid	det
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 maid	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	aux
17	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 things	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 asked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 went	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gave	conj
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 stove	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stove	det
26	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
29	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 gave	iobj
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Hedgehog	nmod:poss
31	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bagpipes	det
33	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gave	iobj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the farmer					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	farmer	farmer's wife and the maid					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	meat	the things not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
4	go	past	farmer			the stove	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind stove=Location
5	give	past	farmer not said here	my Hedgehog	the bagpipes				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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