The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 124

He had a burnt cork in his pocket to blacken his moustache, and a red cock’s feather to put in his cap to make himself look fierce.

Who acts: Walter · What happens: have, blacken, put, make, look · To what, where: burnt cork, pocket, moustache, cap, Walter

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cork	det
4	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cork	amod
5	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 blacken	mark
10	blacken	blacken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 moustache	nmod:poss
12	moustache	moustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blacken	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feather	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feather	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cock	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cock	amod
17	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feather	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 cock	case
19	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 feather	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cap	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cap	nmod:poss
24	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 put	advcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 make	obj
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 look	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Walter	a burnt cork	Walter's pocket		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=Patient
2	blacken	to-infinitive	Walter not said here	Walter's moustache			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moustache=Patient
3	put	to-infinitive	Walter not said here		Walter's cap		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cap=Destination
4	make	to-infinitive	Walter not said here	Walter			tree rules
5	look	infinitive	Walter not said here			fierce property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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