The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 14

The story shows the advantages of good manners and pleasant behaviour; and the natives do not now cook and eat each other, but live on fish, vegetables, pork, and chickens, and dwell in houses.

Who acts: story, natives · What happens: show, not cook, eat, live, dwell · To what, where: advantages, each, houses

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, natives), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 advantages	det
5	advantages	advantage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 manners	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 manners	amod
8	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 advantages	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 behaviour	cc
10	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 behaviour	amod
11	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 manners	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cook	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cook	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 natives	det
15	natives	native	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cook	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cook	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 cook	advmod
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 cook	advmod
19	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shows	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cook	conj
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 eat	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 live	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 live	cc
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 fish	case
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 live	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 vegetables	punct
30	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fish	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pork	punct
32	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fish	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 chickens	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 chickens	cc
35	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dwell	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dwell	cc
38	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	parataxis
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 houses	case
40	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 dwell	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	the story	the advantages of good manners and pleasant behaviour				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advantage=Recipient
2	not cook	present · do-support	the natives			now		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	eat	infinitive	the natives not said here	each				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
4	live	present	the story not said here				on fish and vegetables and pork	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fish=Location
5	dwell	infinitive			houses			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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