The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 127
Then she bought the food that they needed for the day, and returned home to do her share of veil-making.
Who acts: other, girls · What happens: buy, need, return, do, share · To what, where: food, share, veil making
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (other, girls), 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 bought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bought | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 needed | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 needed | nsubj |
| 8 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bought | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 returned | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 share | nmod:poss |
| 19 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 making | case |
| 21 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 making | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 veil | punct |
| 23 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 share | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | other | the food | then | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | past | girls = girl | day | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | return | past | other not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | other not said here | other's share of veil making | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | share | other | veil making | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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