The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 16

She churned quantities of butter, and he hired two men to help him in his fishing.

Who acts: rock, Matte · What happens: churn, hire, help, fish · To what, where: quantities, two men, Matte, fishing

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 (rock, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 churned	nsubj
2	churned	churn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 churned	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 butter	case
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quantities	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hired	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hired	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hired	nsubj
9	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 churned	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hired	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hired	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 fishing	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fishing	nmod:poss
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 help	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 churned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	churn	past	rock	quantities of butter			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Product
2	hire	past	Matte	two men			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	Matte not said here		Matte	Matte's fishing	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	fish		Matte				nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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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