The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 53
So the girl put them out, and he took them away, save only a small pot and a vessel in which she could clean her corn.
Who acts: girl, brother · What happens: put out, take away, save, clean · To what, where: blessing, small pot, corn, vessel
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 pot | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pot | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pot | amod |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 save | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 vessel | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 vessel | det |
| 21 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pot | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 clean | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 clean | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 clean | aux |
| 26 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 corn | nmod:poss |
| 28 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clean | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | infinitive | the girl | blessing | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 2 | take away | past | brother | blessing | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | save | infinitive | the girl not said here | a small pot and a vessel | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | clean | could | Girl | Girl's corn | a vessel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=Patient |
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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