--- title: She invited John to come in, and set before him some wine and fried… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She invited John to come in, and set before him some wine and fried fish, and John ate and drank and felt comforted, and he told his adventures to the little fisher-girl. Who acts: girl, John. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, John), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:22:101 # text = She invited John to come in, and set before him some wine and fried fish, and John ate and drank and felt comforted, and he told his adventures to the little fisher-girl. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 fried fry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **invite** | past | girl | John | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **come in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | John *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **set** | infinitive | John *not said here* | some wine and fried fish | | | before John | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wine=Theme before he=Destination | | 4 | **fry** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **eat** | past | John | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** | past | John *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **feel** | past | John *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **comfort** | participle | John *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | John | John's adventures | the little fisher girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to girl=Recipient | | 10 | **adventure** | | John | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/102/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)