English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 10

So she took them in, and set them down before the fire, and gave them milk and bread; but just as they had begun to eat a great knock came to the door, and a dreadful voice said:

Who acts: woman, man, great knock, dreadful voice · What happens: take, set down, give, begin, eat, come · To what, where: man, fire, milk, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man, great knock, dreadful voice), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	in	in	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bread	cc
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 milk	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 begun	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 begun	cc
23	just	just	ADV	_	27 begun	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 begun	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begun	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 begun	aux
27	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begun	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 knock	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 knock	amod
32	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	ccomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 door	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 door	det
36	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 voice	det
40	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 voice	amod
41	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	woman	man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	set down	infinitive	woman not said here	man		the fire	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before fire=Destination
3	give	past	woman not said here	milk and bread	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient milk=Theme
4	begin	past · perfect	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here				tree rules
6	come	past	a great knock			the door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
7	say speech: assert	past	a dreadful voice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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