The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 7
Next he sewed roughly together some bits of cloth to serve as a pocket, and this he filled with glue and lark’s feathers, a string of beads, a whistle of elder wood, and a slice of bread rubbed over with bacon fat.
Who acts: colt, this, elder wood · What happens: sew, serve, fill, rub over, whistle, slice · To what, where: bits, slice, bread
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, this, elder wood), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 sewed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sewed | nsubj |
| 3 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 5 together | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 sewed | advmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bits | det |
| 7 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sewed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bits | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 serve | mark |
| 11 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sewed | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 pocket | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pocket | det |
| 14 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 serve | obl | ||
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 filled | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | nsubj |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sewed | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 glue | case |
| 21 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feathers | cc |
| 23 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 lark | case |
| 25 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 glue | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 string | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 string | det |
| 28 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glue | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 beads | case |
| 30 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 string | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 whistle | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 whistle | det |
| 33 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 string | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 wood | case |
| 35 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wood | compound |
| 36 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 whistle | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 rubbed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 rubbed | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 slice | det |
| 40 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 bread | case |
| 42 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slice | nmod |
| 43 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sewed | parataxis |
| 44 | over | over | ADV | _ | 43 rubbed | advmod |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 fat | case |
| 46 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 fat | compound |
| 47 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rubbed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | past | colt | some bits of cloth | next, together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Product | |||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | colt not said here | as a pocket | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as pocket=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | this | with glue and lark's feathers and a string of beads and a whistle of elder wood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with glue=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | rub over | participle · passive | a slice of bread | with bacon fat; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | whistle | elder wood | nom whistle «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | slice | bread | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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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