The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 56
It is for your good as well as ours,’ and she held out her apron to catch them, and Denis his hat.
Who acts: dear, Barbaik · What happens: be, hold out, catch · To what, where: apron, others
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear, Barbaik), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 good | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 good | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 ours | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 9 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’ | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 apron | nmod:poss |
| 17 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 catch | mark |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 held | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hat | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hat | cc |
| 23 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hat | compound |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dear | ours obl; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold out | past | Barbaik | Barbaik's apron | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Barbaik not said here | others = other | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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