The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 31
Even the sick were feasted, and quite tiny new-born children had presents given them.
Who acts: tiny born children, presents · What happens: feast, bear, have, give · To what, where: presents
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny born children, presents), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 sick | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sick | det |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feasted | aux:pass |
| 5 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sick | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 tiny | advmod |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 children | amod |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 born | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 new | punct |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 children | amod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | conj |
| 15 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 presents | acl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | past · passive | vn dine-39.5 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | tiny born children | presents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | presents not said here | presents = present | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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