The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 52
Only, all this time she never gave the poor buffalo anything to eat, because she had just one dish, out of which she and her husband ate; while in her old home there was a dish put aside expressly for the Rover of the Plain.
Who acts: girl, dish · What happens: not give, eat, have, be, put · To what, where: anything, one dish, old home, dish
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, dish), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 8 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 gave | advmod |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 anything | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 anything | amod |
| 11 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 anything | compound |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 anything | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 dish | nummod |
| 21 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ate | punct |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 ate | obl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ate | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 husband | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husband | nmod:poss |
| 29 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 she | conj |
| 30 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 was | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 was | mark |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 home | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 home | nmod:poss |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 home | amod |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 was | obl |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 was | expl |
| 38 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | parataxis |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 dish | det |
| 40 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 was | nsubj |
| 41 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 dish | acl |
| 42 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 41 put | advmod |
| 43 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 41 put | advmod |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 Rover | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Rover | det |
| 46 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 put | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Plain | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Plain | det |
| 49 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Rover | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | past | girl | anything | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | girl not said here | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | girl | one dish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | girl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent out which=Source | |||||
| 5 | be | past | a dish | girl's old home; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | ||||
| 6 | put | participle | a dish not said here | for the Rover of the Plain; aside, expressly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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