The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 65

One sister had to clean the house, a second carried water from the spring in the forest, a third cooked their food, while to the youngest fell the hardest task of all, for she had to cut and bring home the wood which was to keep the fire continually burning.

Who acts: One sister, third, wood · What happens: have, clean, carry, cook, fall, cut · To what, where: house, food, hardest task, wood

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One sister, third, wood), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sister	nummod
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 clean	mark
5	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 second	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 second	det
10	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod
11	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 second	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 spring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spring	det
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spring	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cooked	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 third	det
21	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cooked	nsubj
22	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 food	nmod:poss
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cooked	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 youngest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youngest	det
29	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 fell	obl
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cooked	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 task	det
32	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 task	amod
33	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 task	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 had	case
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fell	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 cut	mark
41	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bring	cc
43	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 cut	conj
44	home	home	ADV	_	43 bring	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 wood	det
46	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bring	obj
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 keep	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 keep	cop
49	to	to	PART	_	50 keep	mark
50	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 wood	acl:relcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 fire	det
52	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 keep	obj
53	continually	continually	ADV	_	54 burning	advmod
54	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 keep	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	One sister				tree rules
2	clean	to-infinitive	One sister not said here	the house a second and carried water	spring		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient
3	carry	participle					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cook	past	a third	sisters's food			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
5	fall	past		the hardest task of all		to the youngest result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient task=Extent to young=Result
6	have	past	third				tree rules
7	cut	to-infinitive	third not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	bring	infinitive	third not said here	the wood		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
9	is	past	the wood	the wood not said here		keep property	tree rules
10	burn	gerund	the wood not said here			continually property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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