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More English Fairy Tales, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm, sentence 6

The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No. xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms' _Teut.

Who acts: Laidly Worm, milk · What happens: require, be · To what, where: milk, ordinary provender

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXV. the Lambton Worm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laidly Worm, milk), 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

detcompoundnsubjcasecompoundnmodpunctpunctapposflatpunctpunctadvmoddetobjcasenummodnmodcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctccnmod:posscasensubjcopdetamodoblcaseamodamodnmodpunctconjcasepunctnmodpunctrootTheDETLaidlyPROPNWormPROPNofADPSpindlestonPROPNHeughPROPN"PUNCT(PUNCTNo.PROPNxxxiiiNUM.PUNCT)PUNCTalsoADVrequiresVERBtheDETmilkNOUNofADPnineNUMkyeNOUNforADPitsPRONdailyADJrationsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcowNOUN'sPARTmilkNOUNisAUXtheDETordinaryADJprovenderNOUNofADPsuchADJkittleADJcattleNOUN(PUNCTGrimmsNOUN'PART_PUNCTTeutPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Wormdet
2LaidlyLaidlyPROPNNumber=Sing3 Wormcompound
3WormWormPROPNNumber=Sing14 requiresnsubj
4ofofADP_6 Heughcase
5SpindlestonSpindlestonPROPNNumber=Sing6 Heughcompound
6HeughHeughPROPNNumber=Sing3 Wormnmod
7""PUNCT_6 Heughpunct
8((PUNCT_9 No.punct
9No.No.PROPNAbbr=Yes Number=Sing6 Heughappos
10xxxiiixxxiiiNUM_9 No.flat
11..PUNCT_9 No.punct
12))PUNCT_9 No.punct
13alsoalsoADV_14 requiresadvmod
14requiresrequireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 milkdet
16milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing14 requiresobj
17ofofADP_19 kyecase
18ninenineNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 kyenummod
19kyekyeNOUNNumber=Sing16 milknmod
20forforADP_23 rationscase
21itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 rationsnmod:poss
22dailydailyADJDegree=Pos23 rationsamod
23rationsrationNOUNNumber=Plur19 kyenmod
24,,PUNCT_32 provenderpunct
25andandCCONJ_32 provendercc
26cowcowNOUNNumber=Sing28 milknmod:poss
27's'sPART_26 cowcase
28milkmilkNOUNNumber=Sing32 provendernsubj
29isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 provendercop
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 provenderdet
31ordinaryordinaryADJDegree=Pos32 provenderamod
32provenderprovenderNOUNNumber=Sing14 requiresobl
33ofofADP_36 cattlecase
34suchsuchADJDegree=Pos36 cattleamod
35kittlekittleADJDegree=Pos36 cattleamod
36cattlecattleNOUNNumber=Sing32 provendernmod
37((PUNCT_38 Grimmspunct
38GrimmsgrimmNOUNNumber=Plur36 cattleconj
39''sPART_38 Grimmscase
40__PUNCT_41 Teutpunct
41TeutTeutPROPNNumber=Sing38 Grimmsnmod
42..PUNCT_14 requirespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1require in a quotepresentthe Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heughthe milk of nine kye for kye's daily rationsvn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme milk=Precondition
2is a in a quotepresentcow's milkthe ordinary provenderof such kittle cattle and Grimms Teuttree rules

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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