English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 17

The maid-servant called him in to the fire, and gave him plenty to eat, good meat and bread and beer; and as he was eating his food by the fire, there came the young lady to look at him, and she loved him well and he loved her.

Who acts: maid servant, lad, young lady, lady · What happens: call in, give, eat, come, look, love · To what, where: lad, fire, plenty, food, lady

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid servant, lad, young lady, lady), 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	4 servant	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servant	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 maid	punct
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 servant	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 plenty	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meat	punct
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 meat	amod
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plenty	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bread	cc
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plenty	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beer	cc
24	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plenty	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 eating	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eating	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 eating	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eating	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 eating	aux
30	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gave	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 food	nmod:poss
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eating	obj
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 fire	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fire	det
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eating	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 came	expl
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 eating	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lady	det
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lady	amod
41	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 look	mark
43	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 lady	acl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 look	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 loved	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 loved	cc
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 loved	nsubj
49	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	parataxis
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 loved	obj
51	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 loved	advmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 loved	cc
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 loved	nsubj
54	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 loved	conj
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 loved	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call in speech: assert	participle	the maid servant not said here	lad	the fire			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to fire=Recipient
2	give	past	the maid servant	plenty and good meat and bread and beer	lad			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient plenty=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	the maid servant not said here	plenty and good meat and bread and beer not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	past · progressive	lad	lad's food			by the fire	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
5	come	past	the young lady			there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	to-infinitive	the young lady not said here				at lad	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
7	love	past	lady	lad			well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	love	past	lad	lady				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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