The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 61
‘She is fat and well-liking,’ replied the youth, ‘for the women borrow her mortar to clean their corn, and borrow her pot to cook it in, and for al this they give her more food than she can eat.’
Who acts: sister, women, things · What happens: be, like, reply, borrow, clean, cook in · To what, where: youth, mortar, corn, pot, more food, sister
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 (sister, women, things), 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 fat | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fat | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fat | cop |
| 4 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 replied | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 liking | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 liking | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | liking | like | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 borrow | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 19 borrow | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 women | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 women | det |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 borrow | nsubj |
| 19 | borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 borrow | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 clean | mark |
| 23 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 borrow | advcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 corn | nmod:poss |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clean | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 borrow | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 borrow | cc |
| 28 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 borrow | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pot | nmod:poss |
| 30 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 borrow | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cook | mark |
| 32 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 borrow | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cook | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 cook | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 give | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 give | cc |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 this | case |
| 38 | al | al | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 this | det:predet |
| 39 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 give | obl |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 give | nsubj |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 give | iobj |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 food | amod |
| 44 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obj |
| 45 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 48 eat | mark |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 eat | nsubj |
| 47 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 eat | aux |
| 48 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 give | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sister | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | gerund | sister not said here | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||||
| 4 | borrow | present | the women | sister's mortar | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | clean | to-infinitive | the women not said here | things's corn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | ||||
| 6 | borrow | infinitive | the women not said here | sister's pot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cook in | to-infinitive | the women not said here | corn | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | give | present | things = thing | more food | sister | for this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme for this=Asset | ||
| 9 | eat | can | sister | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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