The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 54
And this was purely spite, for there was plenty of milk for everybody.
Who acts: this, plenty · What happens: be · To what, where: spite
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, plenty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spite | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 spite | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spite | cop |
| 4 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 5 spite | advmod |
| 5 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spite | conj |
| 10 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 milk | case |
| 12 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plenty | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 everybody | case |
| 14 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 was | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | spite | purely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | plenty of milk | there | for everybody | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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