The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 2
The King, her father, gave her more dresses and jewels in a month than he gave the others in a year; but she was so generous that she shared everything with her sisters, and they were all as happy and as fond of one another as they could be.
Who acts: King, Miranda, others · What happens: give, be, share · To what, where: more dresses, Miranda, others, everything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Miranda, others), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 dresses | amod |
| 10 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jewels | cc |
| 12 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dresses | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 month | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 month | det |
| 15 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 generous | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 generous | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 generous | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 generous | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 generous | advmod |
| 29 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gave | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 shared | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shared | nsubj |
| 32 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 generous | advcl |
| 33 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 shared | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 sisters | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 everything | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 happy | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 happy | cc |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 happy | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 happy | cop |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 happy | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | ADV | _ | 43 happy | advmod |
| 43 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 generous | conj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fond | cc |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 fond | case |
| 46 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 happy | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 one | case |
| 48 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 fond | obl |
| 49 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 one | fixed |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 be | mark |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 be | nsubj |
| 52 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 be | aux |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 fond | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the King and Miranda's father | more dresses and jewels | Miranda | month | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dress=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | past | king | the others | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Miranda | generous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share | past | Miranda | everything | with Miranda's sisters | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | others = other | all, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | others = other not said here | of one | tree rules |
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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