The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 40
Even Prince was fed on beefsteaks and cream scones till at last he was as round as a butter jar.
Who acts: cream scones, Prince · What happens: feed, till, be · To what, where: Prince, beefsteaks, last
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 (cream scones, Prince), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 Prince | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fed | aux:pass |
| 4 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 beefsteaks | case |
| 6 | beefsteaks | beefsteak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 till | cc |
| 8 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scones | compound |
| 9 | scones | scone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 till | nsubj |
| 10 | till | till | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fed | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 till | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 round | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 round | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 round | advmod |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 last | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 jar | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jar | det |
| 19 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jar | compound |
| 20 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 round | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · passive | Prince | beefsteaks | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | till | present | cream scones | last | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Prince | last not said here | as a butter jar; round property | tree rules |
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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