The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 48

The buttermilk no longer tasted as good as usual in the coffee; she thought of sweet cream and fresh butter, and of how there was nothing in the world to be compared with them.

Who acts: buttermilk, Maie · What happens: taste, think, be, compare · To what, where: coffee, nothing, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (buttermilk, Maie), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buttermilk	det
2	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	nsubj
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 tasted	advmod
5	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tasted	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 usual	case
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 good	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 coffee	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coffee	det
12	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tasted	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 cream	case
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cream	amod
18	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 butter	cc
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 butter	amod
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cream	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 nothing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nothing	cc
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 was	advmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 nothing	cop
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 thought	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 compared	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 compared	aux:pass
34	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 nothing	advcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 compared	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	taste	past	the buttermilk		the coffee	good, long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	Maie			of sweet cream and fresh butter	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		nothing	the world		tree rules
4	compare	to-infinitive · passive				with cream	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with they=Co-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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