The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 81

With one of the leaves of the cabbage they made her a coat, and another served for a waistcoat; but it took two for the wide breeches which were then in fashion.

Who acts: cabbage, it, wide breeches · What happens: make, serve, take, be · To what, where: coat, Bellah, another, two, fashion

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cabbage, it, wide breeches), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 made	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 leaves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 leaves	det
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cabbage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cabbage	det
8	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	nmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coat	det
13	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 served	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 served	cc
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 served	nsubj:pass
17	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 made	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 waistcoat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 waistcoat	det
20	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 served	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	conj
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 took	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 breeches	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 breeches	det
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 breeches	amod
29	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 fashion	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fashion	cop
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 fashion	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 fashion	case
34	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breeches	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	cabbage	a coat	Bellah			with one of the leaves of the cabbage	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary coat=Product
2	serve	participle · passive		another				for a waistcoat	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for waistcoat=Recipient
3	take	past	it	two				for the wide breeches	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent two=Theme for breech=Beneficiary
4	is	past	the wide breeches			fashion	then		tree rules

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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