The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 24
So Paddy Dorman trusted him with the bottle--more fool was he; and, to his cost, he found that though Maurice’s mouth might not hold more than the glass at one time, yet, owing to the hole in his throat, it took many a filling.
Who acts: Paddy, Maurice, mouth, it · What happens: trust, be, find, not hold, owe, take · To what, where: Maurice, more, hole, many filling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paddy, Maurice, mouth, it), 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 | _ | 4 trusted | advmod |
| 2 | Paddy | Paddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trusted | nsubj |
| 3 | Dorman | Dorman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Paddy | flat |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trusted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bottle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trusted | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 trusted | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 fool | amod |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trusted | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 he | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fool | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cost | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cost | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cost | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trusted | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 hold | mark |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 hold | mark |
| 25 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Maurice | case |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hold | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hold | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 hold | advmod |
| 30 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 found | ccomp |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 hold | obj |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 glass | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 glass | det |
| 34 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 more | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 time | nummod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hold | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 took | punct |
| 39 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 50 took | cc |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 owing | punct |
| 41 | owing | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 50 took | ccomp |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 hole | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hole | det |
| 44 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 owing | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 throat | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 throat | nmod:poss |
| 47 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hole | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 owing | punct |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 took | nsubj |
| 50 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trusted | conj |
| 51 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 filling | amod |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 filling | det |
| 53 | filling | filling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 took | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past | Paddy | Maurice | with the bottle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with bottle=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Maurice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Maurice | to Maurice's cost | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not hold | might | Maurice's mouth | more | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||
| 5 | owe | gerund | to the hole in Maurice's throat goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to hole=Goal | |||||
| 6 | take | past | it | a many filling | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent filling=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | cost | Maurice | nom cost «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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