The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 15

The donkey suddenly grew shy and hung her head, but the lion put on his best manners and invited both his visitors to come in and make themselves comfortable.

Who acts: donkey · What happens: grow, hang, put, invite, come in, make · To what, where: head, lion, best manners, visitors

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hung	cc
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lion	det
13	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	nsubj:pass
14	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grew	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 manners	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 manners	nmod:poss
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 manners	amod
18	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 put	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 invited	cc
20	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 put	conj
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 visitors	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 visitors	nmod:poss
23	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 invited	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 invited	advcl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 make	obj
30	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 make	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the donkey				shy, suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang	past	the donkey not said here	donkey's head				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	put	participle · passive		the lion		lion's best manners		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on manners=Destination
4	invite	past			lion's visitors			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient
5	come in	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	infinitive		visitors = visitor			comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product

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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