The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 42

And so there was such a jam-making as had never been seen before, and if you like to go and help in it, you might perhaps get a little, for they must surely be making jam still to this very day.

Who acts: you, as · What happens: make, not see, like, go, help, get · To what, where: making as, basket, little, jam

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 (you, as), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 seen	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux:pass
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 as	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 as	det
7	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 jam	punct
9	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 as	amod
10	as	a	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seen	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 seen	advmod
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 seen	aux:pass
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	before	before	ADV	_	14 seen	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 like	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
20	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 get	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 like	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 help	cc
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seen	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 get	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 making	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 making	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 making	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 making	aux
38	surely	surely	ADV	_	40 making	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 making	aux
40	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 get	conj
41	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 making	obj
42	still	still	ADV	_	40 making	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 day	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 day	det
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 day	advmod
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 making	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	not see	past · perfect · passive		such making as			before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	infinitive	you not said here		basket			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	get	might	you	a little			perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
7	make	must · progressive	as = a	jam		still; day	surely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jam=Product

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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