The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 102
The farmer’s wife sighed and, giving Peronnik some more food, bade him good-night.
Who acts: wife · What happens: sigh, give · To what, where: more food, Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sighed | nsubj |
| 5 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 giving | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 giving | punct |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sighed | conj |
| 9 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 food | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bade | punct |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 food | nmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the farmer's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | the farmer's wife not said here | some more food horse and bade | Peronnik | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent peronnik=Recipient food=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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