The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 98
As it was, I had to content myself with buying these sheep, which you can get for nothing.’
Who acts: luck, I, sheep · What happens: be, have, content, buy, get · To what, where: myself, sheep
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, I, sheep), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 content | mark |
| 8 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 content | obj |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 buying | mark |
| 11 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 content | advcl |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 sheep | det |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 buying | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 get | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sheep | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 nothing | case |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 get | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | luck | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | content | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | buy | gerund | I not said here | this sheep | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | can | this sheep | for nothing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for nothing=Source |
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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