The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 96
The father and mother snake could not do enough to show their gratitude.
Who acts: father · What happens: not do, show · To what, where: gratitude
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 snake | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snake | compound |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could | the father and mother snake | enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the father and mother snake not said here | father's gratitude | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient |
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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