The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 61

It matched the stuffs so perfectly, and never tied itself in knots, or broke perpetually, as most thread did.

Who acts: thread, most thread · What happens: match, not tie, break, do · To what, where: stuffs, thread, knots

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, most thread), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 matched	nsubj
2	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stuffs	det
4	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 matched	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 perfectly	advmod
6	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	2 matched	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tied	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tied	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 tied	advmod
10	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 matched	conj
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 tied	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 knots	case
13	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tied	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 broke	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 broke	cc
16	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 matched	parataxis
17	perpetually	perpetually	ADV	_	16 broke	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 did	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 did	mark
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 thread	amod
21	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 broke	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 matched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	match	past	thread	the stuffs		perfectly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
2	not tie	past	thread not said here	thread	knots		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3	break	past				perpetually property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	do	past	most thread				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 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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