The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 25
Now that I have a servant, with the same amount of trouble she could look after three cows.’
Who acts: I, Maie · What happens: have, look, amount · To what, where: servant, trouble
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 (I, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 servant | det |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amount | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 amount | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 amount | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 amount | amod |
| 11 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amount | nmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 amount | parataxis |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 cows | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cows | nummod |
| 19 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a servant | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | could | Maie | after three cows | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | amount | trouble | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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