The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 39
Garlic would be fine feeding for her.’
Who acts: Garlic · What happens: be · To what, where: fine feeding
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 (Garlic), 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 | Garlic | garlic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feeding | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 feeding | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feeding | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeding | amod |
| 5 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feeding | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeding | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | Garlic | fine feeding | for cow | tree rules |
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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