The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 46

They had made a rule always to dine off the smallest of the party, and when the fox was gone, why of course, he was smaller than the bear.

Who acts: lies, fox · What happens: make, dine off, be · To what, where: rule, smallest

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lies, fox), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 dine	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dine	mark
8	dine	dine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 dine	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 smallest	det
11	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 dine	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 party	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 party	det
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smallest	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fox	det
19	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 why	punct
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 gone	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 why	advcl:relcl
25	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 of	fixed
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 smaller	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 smaller	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 smaller	cop
29	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 gone	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 bear	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bear	det
32	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smaller	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	lies = lie	a rule		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product
2	dine off	to-infinitive	lies = lie not said here	the smallest of the party	always property	tree rules
3	is	past	the fox		gone property	tree rules
4	is	past	fox		than the bear; small property	tree 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: «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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