The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 58
She soon grew quite fat with all the corn she earned with the help of her pot, and then one evening she picked up a pumpkin seed in a corner, and planted it near her well, and it sprang up, and gave her many pumpkins.
Who acts: Girl, seed · What happens: grow, earn, pick up, plant, spring up, give · To what, where: corn, pumpkin seed, corner, seed, many pumpkins, Girl
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, seed), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | advmod |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 fat | advmod |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 corn | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 corn | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 corn | det |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fat | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 earned | nsubj |
| 11 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 corn | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 help | det |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earned | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pot | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 picked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 picked | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 evening | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 evening | nummod |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 picked | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 picked | nsubj |
| 24 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 picked | compound:prt |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 seed | det |
| 27 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seed | compound |
| 28 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 picked | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 corner | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 corner | det |
| 31 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seed | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 planted | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 planted | cc |
| 34 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 picked | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 planted | obj |
| 36 | near | near | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 planted | obl |
| 38 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 planted | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sprang | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sprang | cc |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sprang | nsubj |
| 42 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 sprang | compound:prt |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 gave | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 gave | cc |
| 46 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 gave | iobj |
| 48 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 pumpkins | amod |
| 49 | pumpkins | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 gave | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Girl | fat, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | earn | past | Girl | all corn not said here | with the help of Girl's pot | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme | |||
| 3 | pick up | past | Girl | a pumpkin seed | a corner | evening | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic | ||
| 4 | plant | past | Girl not said here | seed | near Girl; well property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near she=Destination | |||
| 5 | spring up | past | seed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | past | Girl not said here | many pumpkins | Girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pumpkin=Theme | |||
| 7 | help | Girl's pot | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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