The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 115
Then she went to the kitchen and baked a number of cakes, more than Peter could have eaten in a whole month.
Who acts: dog, Peter · What happens: go, bake, eat · To what, where: kitchen, number
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Peter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 baked | cc |
| 8 | baked | bake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baked | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cakes | case |
| 12 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 baked | obj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 eaten | mark |
| 16 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eaten | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 eaten | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eaten | aux |
| 19 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 more | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 month | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 month | amod |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eaten | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dog | the kitchen | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bake | past | dog not said here | a number of cakes | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent number=Beneficiary more=Product | ||||
| 3 | eat | could · perfect | Peter | month | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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