The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 92
And so it did, for very soon the poor brother reached the place, bespattered with mud from head to foot, but ready to do all he could to help with the mule and his master.
Who acts: beast, poor brother · What happens: do, reach, bespatter, help · To what, where: place, head
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, poor brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 reached | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bespattered | punct |
| 16 | bespattered | bespatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 place | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 mud | case |
| 18 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bespattered | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bespattered | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bespattered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ready | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 ready | cc |
| 25 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ready | xcomp |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 could | det |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 could | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 help | mark |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 could | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 mule | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mule | det |
| 35 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 help | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 master | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 master | nmod:poss |
| 38 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mule | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | beast | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | the poor brother | the place | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | bespatter | participle | the place not said here | head | with mud; to foot | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | beast not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | beast not said here | with the mule and mule's master | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mule=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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