The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 70
In this way she earned more than she needed for herself, and soon was able to get another mortar and cooking pot in exchange for her corn.
Who acts: many · What happens: earn, need, be, get, cook · To what, where: more, way, mortar, pot
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earned | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 earned | nsubj |
| 5 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 earned | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 needed | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 more | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 needed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 able | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 able | advmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 earned | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mortar | det |
| 20 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cooking | cc |
| 22 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 get | conj |
| 23 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cooking | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 exchange | case |
| 25 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cooking | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 corn | case |
| 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 | 25 exchange | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 earned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | past | many | more | this way | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | past | many | for many | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | past | many not said here | able, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | many not said here | another mortar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mortar=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cook | gerund | many not said here | pot | in exchange for many's corn | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient in exchange=Instrument |
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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