English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 15
With that the lady pulled out her provisions, and bade him eat and welcome.
Who acts: lady, father · What happens: pull out, eat, welcome, provide · To what, where: provisions, bade
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, father), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pulled | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 provisions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bade | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 11 bade | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 welcome | cc |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 13 eat | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | the lady | lady's provisions | with that; bade obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | present | father | bade not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Patient | ||||
| 3 | welcome | present | father not said here | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | provide | lady | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=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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