The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 4
She does throw him a good morsel or two now and then.
Who acts: dog · What happens: throw · To what, where: good morsel, Brother
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | aux |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 morsel | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morsel | amod |
| 7 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throw | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 two | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 morsel | conj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 throw | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 then | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 now | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · do-support | dog | a good morsel | Brother | now | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination morsel=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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