The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 4
Every day, after the dinner table had been cleared, and everyone had retired, a confidential servant brought in a dish.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: clear, retire, bring · To what, where: confidential servant, dish
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cleared | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 table | compound |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cleared | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cleared | aux:pass |
| 10 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 retired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 retired | cc |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 retired | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 retired | aux |
| 15 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cleared | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 servant | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 servant | det |
| 18 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 servant | amod |
| 19 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 retired | obl |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 servant | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dish | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dish | det |
| 23 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cleared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | past · perfect · passive | day | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V» | |||||
| 2 | retire | past · perfect | everyone | a confidential servant | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring | participle | a confidential servant not said here | a dish | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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