The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 118

Soon after dinner the big sister said: ‘Now we have eaten up the raspberries and we have none left to make preserve for the winter; it would be fine if we could get two baskets full of berries, then we could clean them this evening, and to-morrow we could cook them in the big preserving pan, and then we should have raspberry jam to eat on our bread!’

Who acts: big sister, we · What happens: say, eat up, have, leave, make, be · To what, where: raspberries, none, preserve, two baskets, baskets, raspberry jam · 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 (big sister, we), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 said	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 dinner	case
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 eaten	punct
10	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 eaten	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 eaten	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 raspberries	det
16	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eaten	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	conj
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 have	obj
21	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 none	acl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 left	advcl
24	preserve	preserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 winter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 winter	det
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 fine	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fine	expl
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fine	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 fine	cop
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 get	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fine	csubj
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 baskets	nummod
38	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 get	obj
39	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 baskets	amod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 berries	case
41	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 full	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 clean	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 clean	advmod
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 clean	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 clean	aux
46	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fine	parataxis
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 clean	obj
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 evening	det
49	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 clean	obl:unmarked
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 cook	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 cook	cc
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 morrow	case
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 to	punct
54	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 cook	obl
55	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 cook	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 cook	aux
57	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 cook	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	63 pan	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 pan	det
61	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 pan	amod
62	preserving	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	63 pan	amod
63	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 cook	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 have	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 have	cc
66	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	69 have	advmod
67	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	69 have	nsubj
68	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 have	aux
69	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
70	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 jam	compound
71	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 have	obj
72	to	to	PART	_	73 eat	mark
73	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 jam	acl
74	on	on	ADP	_	76 bread	case
75	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 bread	nmod:poss
76	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 eat	obl
77	!	!	PUNCT	_	69 have	punct
78	’	'	PUNCT	_	69 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the big sister			after dinner	soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat up	present · perfect	we	the raspberries		now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raspberry=Patient
3	have	present	we	none				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
4	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive		preserve		winter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preserve=Product
6	is	would	the big sister not said here				fine property	tree rules
7	get a condition, not said to happen	could	we	two baskets				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus
8	clean	could	we	baskets = basket		then; evening		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
9	cook	could	we	baskets = basket			to morrow result; in the big preserving pan	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient to morrow=Result in pan=Instrument
10	preserve	gerund						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
11	have	should	we	raspberry jam		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Patient
12	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here	raspberry jam not said here	our bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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