The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 73
And all the payment the brownie ever asked for was a bowl of broth.
Who acts: payment · What happens: ask, be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (payment), 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 | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 payment | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 payment | det |
| 4 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brownie | det |
| 6 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 payment | appos |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 asked | advmod |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 bowl | case |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bowl | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bowl | det |
| 12 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 broth | case |
| 14 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bowl | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | all payment | ever | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | for a bowl; of broth | 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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