The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 69

So she ate what she wanted and took the others to the village, and gave them in exchange for corn, and the women said that no pumpkins were as sweet as these, and that she was to bring every day all that she had.

Who acts: many, women, pumpkins · What happens: eat, want, take, give, say, be · To what, where: others, village, pumpkins, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (many, women, pumpkins), 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	_	3 ate	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 ate	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wanted	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 others	det
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 exchange	case
19	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 corn	case
21	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exchange	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 women	det
25	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 sweet	mark
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 pumpkins	det
29	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sweet	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sweet	cop
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 sweet	advmod
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 these	case
34	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 sweet	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bring	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bring	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 bring	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 bring	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bring	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 bring	mark
41	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	conj
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	43 day	det
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bring	obj
44	all	all	ADV	_	47 had	advmod
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 had	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bring	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	many						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	want	past	many						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	take	past	many not said here	the others		the village			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme to village=Destination
4	give	past	many not said here		pumpkins = pumpkin	exchange for corn			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the women						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	no pumpkins					as these; sweet property	tree rules
7	is	past	many				day	bring property	tree rules
8	have	past	many					all property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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