The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 74
By the time she got home, the rice for their dinner was ready cooked, and the eldest sister gave the other six their portions in wooden bowls.
Who acts: stream, eldest sister · What happens: get, cook, give · To what, where: time, rice, portions, other six, wooden bowls
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 (stream, eldest sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1977): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cooked | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rice | det |
| 9 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rice | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cooked | aux:pass |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADV | _ | 15 cooked | advmod |
| 15 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sister | det |
| 19 | eldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 sister | amod |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cooked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 six | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 six | amod |
| 24 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 gave | iobj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 portions | nmod:poss |
| 26 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bowls | case |
| 28 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bowls | amod |
| 29 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | stream | the time not said here | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cook | past · passive | the rice for rocks's dinner | time | ready property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | past | the eldest sister | sisters's portions | the other six | wooden bowls | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent six=Recipient portion=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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