The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 70

‘That is well, for a deer comes every evening to eat my corn, and I cannot catch it.

Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, come, eat, not catch · To what, where: corn

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 well	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 well	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 comes	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 deer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl:unmarked
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 comes	advcl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 corn	nmod:poss
15	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 catch	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 catch	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 catch	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 catch	advmod
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			well property	tree rules
2	come	present			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive		my corn			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
4	not catch	can	I	corn			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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