English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 15

He said nothing, but ate up a big supper, and ordered them to stay all night.

Who acts: voice · What happens: say, eat up, order, stay · To what, where: nothing, big supper, man · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ate	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 ate	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 supper	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 supper	amod
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ordered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ordered	cc
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ordered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stay	mark
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ordered	xcomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	voice	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	eat up	past	voice not said here	a big supper			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
3	order	past			man		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive				night	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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