The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 5
Of course, Jegu was only too pleased to be able to do anything for the brownie, and he ordered Barbaik to spread her best table-cloths in the barn, and to make a quantity of little loaves and pancakes, and, besides, to keep all the milk given by the cows that morning.
Who acts: Jegu · What happens: be, do, order, spread, make, keep · To what, where: anything, Barbaik, best table cloths, barn, quantity, milk
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Jegu | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pleased | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pleased | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 brownie | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brownie | det |
| 17 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 anything | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ordered | nsubj |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | advcl |
| 22 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 spread | mark |
| 24 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ordered | xcomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cloths | nmod:poss |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 cloths | amod |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cloths | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 table | punct |
| 29 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spread | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 barn | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 barn | det |
| 32 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spread | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 make | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 make | cc |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 spread | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 quantity | det |
| 38 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 loaves | case |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 loaves | amod |
| 41 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 quantity | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 pancakes | cc |
| 43 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 loaves | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 keep | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 keep | cc |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 and | punct |
| 47 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 50 keep | discourse |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 keep | punct |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 keep | mark |
| 50 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pleased | conj |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 milk | det:predet |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 milk | det |
| 53 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 keep | obj |
| 54 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 milk | acl |
| 55 | by | by | ADP | _ | 57 cows | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 cows | det |
| 57 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 given | obl |
| 58 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 59 morning | det |
| 59 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 cows | nmod:unmarked |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of Jegu; pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | anything | for the brownie | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | order | past | Jegu | Barbaik | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent barbaik=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | spread not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jegu not said here | brownie's best table cloths | the barn | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme in barn=Destination | |||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | Jegu not said here | a quantity of little loaves and pancakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset quantity=Product | ||||
| 7 | keep | to-infinitive | all milk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | |||||
| 8 | give | participle | all milk not said here | by the cows that morning | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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