The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 71

The sheep was as yet all raw and bloody; but he liked it the better for that.

Who acts: sheep · What happens: be, like · To what, where: wine

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), 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 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 liked	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 all	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 all	case
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sheep	conj
7	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 all	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bloody	cc
9	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 raw	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 liked	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	nsubj
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 better	det
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 liked	ccomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 better	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be		the sheep not said here						tree rules
2	like	past	the sheep	wine					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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