The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 40
‘Every cow likes salt herring,’ rejoined his wife.
Who acts: cow · What happens: like, rejoin · To what, where: salt herring, wife
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), 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 | _ | 4 likes | punct |
| 2 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 cow | det |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 likes | nsubj |
| 4 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 herring | compound |
| 6 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 likes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoined | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoined | punct |
| 9 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 likes | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rejoined | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 likes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | every cow | salt herring | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot herring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rejoin | past | every cow not said here | fish's wife | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
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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