English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 2

Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.

Who acts: gentleman, daughter · What happens: use, come, see, stop, supper, send down · To what, where: wife, farmhouse, cellar, beer

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, daughter), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stop	cc
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 supper	mark
14	supper	supper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stop	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 farmhouse	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farmhouse	det
17	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 supper	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 used	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 daughter	det
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 used	nsubj
22	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 sent	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	aux:pass
25	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 used	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 sent	compound:prt
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 draw	mark
31	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beer	det
33	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 draw	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 supper	case
35	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 draw	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	gentleman			evening		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	gentleman not said here	wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	stop	infinitive	gentleman not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	supper	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here		the farmhouse			tree rules
6	use	past	the daughter					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	send down	to-infinitive · passive	the daughter not said here		the cellar			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»
8	draw	to-infinitive	the daughter not said here	the beer			for supper	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beer=Result for supper=Beneficiary

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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