The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 79
Before he went to bed, the eldest made a cake of magic herbs, which she gave him to eat.
Who acts: prince, eldest, magic herbs · What happens: go, make, give, eat · To what, where: bed, cake, prince
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, eldest, magic herbs), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eldest | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cake | det |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 herbs | case |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 herbs | amod |
| 14 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cake | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 herbs | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gave | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the eldest | a cake of magic herbs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | past | magic herbs | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | magic herbs not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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