The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 10

‘It is all very fine to possess a cow,’ said Matte, as he cleaned the fish; ‘but what are we going to feed her on?’

Who acts: It, Matte · What happens: be, possess, say, clean, go, feed on · To what, where: cow, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Matte), 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	_	6 fine	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 possess	mark
8	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fine	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possess	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cleaned	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 cleaned	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cleaned	nsubj
18	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fish	det
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cleaned	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 going	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 going	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cleaned	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 feed	mark
29	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	xcomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 feed	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	29 feed	compound:prt
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			all, fine property	tree rules
2	possess	to-infinitive		a cow			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cow=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Matte				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	clean	past	Matte	the fish			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
5	go	present · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	feed on	to-infinitive			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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