The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 90
Here she gave him meat and drink, and water to wash with and garments to wear, and he lay down upon a soft bed, with scarlet and fur to cover him, and slept gladly.
Who acts: drawbridge, horse · What happens: give, wash, wear, lie down, cover, sleep · To what, where: meat, horse, soft bed
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawbridge, horse), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drink | cc |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 water | cc |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wash | mark |
| 12 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wash | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 garments | cc |
| 15 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wash | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wear | mark |
| 17 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wash | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 lay | advmod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bed | det |
| 25 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bed | amod |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 scarlet | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 scarlet | case |
| 29 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fur | cc |
| 31 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scarlet | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 cover | mark |
| 33 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 scarlet | acl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 cover | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 slept | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 slept | cc |
| 37 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 38 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 37 slept | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | drawbridge | meat and drink | horse | here | water obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme | |
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | drawbridge not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wear | to-infinitive | drawbridge not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lie down | past | horse | a soft bed | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location | |||
| 5 | cover | to-infinitive | horse not said here | horse | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sleep | past | gladly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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