The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 37

Shakespeare took them and put bits of them into ‘King Lear’ and other plays; he could not have made them up himself, great as he was.

Who acts: Shakespeare · What happens: take, put, not make up, be · To what, where: Fes, bits, King Lear

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Shakespeare), 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	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bits	nmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 Lear	case
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Lear	punct
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lear	compound
12	Lear	Lear	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Lear	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 plays	cc
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plays	amod
16	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Lear	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 made	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	aux
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 made	compound:prt
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 made	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 great	punct
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	parataxis
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 was	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 was	nsubj
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 great	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Shakespeare	Fes = fe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	put	infinitive	Shakespeare not said here	bits of Fes	King Lear and other plays		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bit=Goal
3	not make up	could · perfect	Shakespeare	Fes = fe		Shakespeare obl	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Pivot
4	be	past	Shakespeare				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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