The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 12

The girls poured out the beautiful coffee, put in the cream and sugar, and tasted it; never in their lives had they drunk such beautiful coffee.

Who acts: girls, lives · What happens: pour out, put, taste, have, drink · To what, where: beautiful coffee, cream, coffee, such beautiful coffee

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, lives), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poured	nsubj
3	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 poured	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coffee	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coffee	amod
7	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poured	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cream	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cream	det
12	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sugar	cc
14	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cream	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tasted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tasted	cc
17	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tasted	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 lives	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 lives	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lives	nmod:poss
23	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	conj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drunk	nsubj
26	drunk	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	ccomp
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coffee	amod
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coffee	amod
29	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drunk	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pour out	past	the girls	the beautiful coffee		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient
2	put	infinitive	the girls not said here		the cream and sugar	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cream=Destination
3	taste	past	the girls not said here	coffee		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
4	have	past	girls's lives			tree rules
5	drink	past	lives = life	such beautiful coffee		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=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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