The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 59
And while the wheat was growing up, he hunted and fished, and they had food enough and to spare.
Who acts: wheat, castle, shoemakers · What happens: grow up, hunt, fish, have, spare · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheat, castle, shoemakers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunted | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 growing | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wheat | det |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 growing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 growing | aux |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hunted | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 growing | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 growing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hunted | nsubj |
| 10 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fished | cc |
| 12 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunted | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunted | parataxis |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spare | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 spare | mark |
| 21 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · progressive | the wheat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hunt | past | castle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fish | past | castle not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | shoemakers = shoemaker | food | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 5 | spare | to-infinitive | shoemakers = shoemaker not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: 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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