The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 13
But he was not altogether wrong, for the clear blue sea is like a great pan in which God’s sun all day makes cakes for good children.
Who acts: Lasse, clear blue sea, sun · What happens: not be, be, make · To what, where: cakes, great pan
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse, clear blue sea, sun), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 wrong | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wrong | advmod |
| 5 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 6 wrong | advmod |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pan | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 pan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sea | amod |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sea | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pan | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pan | cop |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 pan | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pan | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pan | amod |
| 17 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrong | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 makes | obl |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 God | case |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 makes | nsubj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pan | parataxis |
| 26 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 makes | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 children | case |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 children | amod |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 makes | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Lasse | altogether, wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the clear blue sea | for a great pan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | God's sun all day | cakes | a great pan | for good children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for child=Beneficiary |
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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