The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 117
“Because the miller keeps everything for himself, and does not give to those who need it.”
What happens: keep, not give, need · To what, where: everything, those, plenty
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 miller | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 keeps | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 keeps | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 give | advmod |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keeps | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 those | case |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 give | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 need | nsubj |
| 17 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 need | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | everything | because the miller; for miller | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give in a quote | present · do-support | those | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | plenty | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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