The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 33
The next night she got a few drops of the sleepy posset that she saved the evening before put into her husband’s night drink, and that made him sleep sound enough.
Who acts: joy, that · What happens: get, save, put, make · To what, where: few drops, sleepy posset, evening, night drink, sleep sound, husband
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, that), 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 | 3 night | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drops | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drops | amod |
| 8 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 posset | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 posset | det |
| 11 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 posset | amod |
| 12 | posset | posset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drops | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 saved | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saved | nsubj |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 posset | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 evening | det |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saved | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 evening | acl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 drink | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drink | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drink | compound |
| 25 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 made | obj |
| 31 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sound | compound |
| 32 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 33 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 29 made | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | joy | a few drops of the sleepy posset | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | save | past | joy | the sleepy posset not said here | evening | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent posset=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | participle | the evening not said here | joy's husband's night drink | before property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | make | past | that | sleep sound | husband | enough property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary sound=Product |
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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