The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 64
The best of food and drink also was set before them when they wished to dine.
Who acts: chandeliers · What happens: set, wish, dine
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chandeliers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 best | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 set | advmod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 best | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drink | cc |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 food | conj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux:pass |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 wished | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dine | mark |
| 16 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wished | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | before food | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before they=Destination | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | chandeliers = chandelier | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dine not said to happen | to-infinitive | chandeliers = chandelier not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: 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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