The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 3

Gwythyr had pity on them, and put out the fire, and in gratitude the ants brought him the nine bushels of flax seed which Yspaddaden Penkawr required of Kilweh.

Who acts: Gwythyr, ants, Yspaddaden · What happens: have, put out, bring, require · To what, where: pity, fire, nine bushels, Gwythyr, gratitude, flax seed

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gwythyr, ants, Yspaddaden), 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	Gwythyr	Gwythyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brought	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 gratitude	case
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ants	det
17	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brought	nsubj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brought	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bushels	det
21	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bushels	nummod
22	bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brought	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 seed	case
24	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seed	compound
25	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bushels	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 required	obj
27	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 required	nsubj
28	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Yspaddaden	flat
29	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seed	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Kilweh	case
31	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 required	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Gwythyr	pity			on ants = ant	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	put out	participle	Gwythyr not said here	the fire				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal
3	bring	past	the ants	the nine bushels of flax seed	Gwythyr	gratitude		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bushel=Theme
4	require	past	Yspaddaden	flax seed			of Kilweh	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Precondition

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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