More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 86
So he bought everything for his wife so that she could bake bread.
Who acts: squeak, mother · What happens: buy, bake · To what, where: everything, bread
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squeak, mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 bought | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obl |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 bake | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bake | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bake | aux |
| 12 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bought | advcl |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bake | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | squeak | everything | for squeak's wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | bake | could | mother | bread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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