The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 94
For many nights I have crept down to the palace, and have lowered myself in the bucket, bringing home with me enough cheese to feed the children.
Who acts: I · What happens: creep down, lower, bring, feed · To what, where: palace, myself, bucket, enough cheese, children
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 nights | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nights | amod |
| 3 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crept | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 crept | aux |
| 6 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 crept | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lowered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lowered | cc |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lowered | aux |
| 14 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 crept | conj |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 14 lowered | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bucket | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bucket | det |
| 18 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lowered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bringing | punct |
| 20 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lowered | advcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 bringing | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bringing | obl |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cheese | amod |
| 25 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bringing | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 feed | mark |
| 27 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bringing | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 feed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep down | present · perfect | I | the palace | night | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 2 | lower | present · perfect | I not said here | myself | the bucket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bucket=Destination | |||
| 3 | bring | gerund | I not said here | enough cheese | with me; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | I not said here | the children | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
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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