The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 91

As there was no Djulung to give her rice to, the girl soon became fat again, and as she was able to do her work as of old, her sisters did not trouble about her.

Who acts: Djulung, girl, body, sisters · What happens: be, give, become, do, work · To what, where: rice, work, trouble

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 (Djulung, girl, body, sisters), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 Djulung	det
5	Djulung	Djulung	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 was	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rice	nmod:poss
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	9 rice	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 became	advmod
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 rice	conj
16	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 fat	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 able	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 able	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 able	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 became	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 work	nmod:poss
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
28	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 old	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 do	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 did	punct
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sisters	nmod:poss
33	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 do	advcl
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 trouble	advmod
36	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 did	obj
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 trouble	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no Djulung		there		tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	no Djulung not said here	body's rice			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme
3	become	past	the girl			fat, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	body			able property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	body not said here	body's work		as old	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
6	do	past	body's sisters	trouble		about body	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
7	work		body				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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