English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 3

The countryman bade him welcome, and his wife, who was a very good-hearted woman, soon brought him some milk in a wooden bowl, and some coarse brown bread on a platter.

Who acts: magician, wife, some · What happens: welcome, be, bring, bread · To what, where: countryman bade, good hearted woman, milk, magician, wooden bowl, platter

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, wife, some), 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	3 bade	det
2	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bade	compound
3	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 welcome	obl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 welcome	nsubj
5	welcome	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brought	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 woman	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
17	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 brought	advmod
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 welcome	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 milk	det
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 bowl	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bowl	det
27	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bowl	amod
28	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bread	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bread	cc
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 bread	nsubj
32	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bread	amod
33	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bread	amod
34	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 welcome	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 platter	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 platter	det
37	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bread	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 welcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	welcome	present	magician	the countryman bade				vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	magician's wife and a good hearted woman	a good hearted woman				tree rules
3	bring	past	magician's wife and a good hearted woman	some milk	magician	a wooden bowl	soon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination milk=Theme
4	bread		some			a platter		tree rules

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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