The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 41

So clumsy was he that he was always putting his great feet into the bowls of sweet milk or curds which his mother set out on the floor to cool, always smashing, upsetting, breaking, until at last his father said to him:

Who acts: Moti, sweet milk, mother, last father · What happens: be, put, curd, set out, cool, smash · To what, where: Moti, great feet, bowls, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Moti, sweet milk, mother, last father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 clumsy	advmod
2	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 he	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clumsy	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 putting	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 putting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 putting	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 putting	advmod
9	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 clumsy	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feet	amod
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 putting	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 bowls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bowls	det
15	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 putting	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 milk	case
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 milk	amod
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowls	nmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 curds	cc
20	curds	curd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 milk	acl:relcl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 set	obj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	nsubj
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 curds	ccomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 floor	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 floor	det
28	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 cool	mark
30	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 smashing	punct
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 smashing	advmod
33	smashing	smash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 set	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 upsetting	punct
35	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 smashing	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 breaking	punct
37	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 smashing	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
39	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 said	mark
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 father	amod
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 said	nsubj
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clumsy	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 said	obl
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 clumsy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Moti				tree rules
2	put	past · progressive	Moti	Moti's great feet		the bowls of sweet milk	always property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal
3	curd	present	sweet milk not said here					tree rules
4	set out	past	Moti's mother			the floor		tree rules
5	cool	to-infinitive	Moti's mother not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	smash	gerund	Moti's mother not said here				always property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	break	gerund	Moti's mother not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	say speech: assert	past	Moti's last father		Moti			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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