The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 82
How delicious every morning and evening to draw milk from it, and yet have no trouble about the feeding, and to keep a shelf near the window for dishes of milk and junkets!
What happens: draw, have, keep · To what, where: milk, heart, trouble, shelf, window
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delicious | advmod |
| 2 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 evening | cc |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 draw | mark |
| 8 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | acl |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 draw | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 draw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 trouble | det |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 feeding | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feeding | det |
| 20 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trouble | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 keep | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 shelf | det |
| 26 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 window | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 window | det |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 dishes | case |
| 31 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 keep | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 milk | case |
| 33 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dishes | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 junkets | cc |
| 35 | junkets | junket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 milk | conj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | to-infinitive | milk | heart | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent milk=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | no trouble | yet; morning | about the feeding | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | |||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | a shelf | the window | for dishes of milk and junkets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme near window=Location |
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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