More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 93
So he bought everything proper for his wife to brew ale with.
Who acts: tide · What happens: buy, brew · To what, where: everything, ale
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 (tide), 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 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everything | amod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 brew | mark |
| 10 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bought | advcl |
| 11 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brew | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 brew | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | tide | everything | for tide's wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | brew | to-infinitive | tide not said here | ale | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=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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