The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 36

‘She could not swim so far, and our boat is not large enough to bring her over here; and even if we had her, we have nothing to feed her on.’

Who acts: cow, boat, we · What happens: not swim, not be, bring over, have, feed on · To what, where: cow, nothing

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 (cow, boat, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swim	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 swim	advmod
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 swim	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 large	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 large	cc
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 boat	nmod:poss
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 large	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 large	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 large	advmod
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swim	parataxis
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 large	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bring	mark
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 large	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	17 bring	compound:prt
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bring	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 had	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	parataxis
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 feed	mark
33	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 nothing	acl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 feed	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	33 feed	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not swim	could	cow				far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present	our boat				enough, large property	tree rules
3	bring over	to-infinitive	our boat not said here		cow	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	we	cow				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	have	present	we	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	feed on	to-infinitive	we not said here	nothing not said here	cow			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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