The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 33

Besides that, they had bread, butter, fish, a beer cask, and a buttermilk jar; what more did they require?

Who acts: Matte · What happens: have, require · To what, where: bread

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 had	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 that	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 butter	punct
8	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fish	punct
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cask	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cask	det
13	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cask	compound
14	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jar	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 jar	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 jar	det
18	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jar	compound
19	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bread	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 require	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 require	obj
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 require	advmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 require	aux
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 require	nsubj
25	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Matte	bread and butter and fish and a beer cask and a buttermilk jar				besides that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	require	past · do-support	Matte						vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition

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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