The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 58

They always had enough black bread to eat, and wooden shoes or sabots to wear, and a pig to fatten, so the neighbours thought them quite rich; and what was still better, they thought themselves rich also.

Who acts: korigans, wooden shoes, pig, neighbours · What happens: have, eat, wear, fatten, think, be · To what, where: enough black bread, korigans

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 (korigans, wooden shoes, pig, neighbours), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bread	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wear	cc
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shoes	amod
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wear	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sabots	cc
14	sabots	sabot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shoes	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wear	mark
16	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fatten	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fatten	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pig	det
20	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fatten	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 fatten	mark
22	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wear	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 thought	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neighbours	det
26	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fatten	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	obj
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 rich	advmod
30	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thought	xcomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 better	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 better	cc
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 better	obl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 better	cop
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 better	advmod
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thought	nsubj
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 better	advcl
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 thought	obj
41	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 thought	xcomp
42	also	also	ADV	_	41 rich	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	korigans = korigan	enough black bread		always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive	korigans = korigan not said here	enough black bread not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear	to-infinitive	wooden shoes or sabots				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	fatten	to-infinitive	a pig				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	the neighbours	korigans = korigan		rich property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
6	is	past	korigans = korigan not said here		still	good property	tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	korigans = korigan	korigans = korigan		rich property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme

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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