The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 29
There was a nice little garden attached to the cottage, in which they cultivated peas, beans, and cabbages, and the lady was not ashamed to go out at harvest time, and glean in the fields to supply her little son’s wants.
Who acts: nice little garden, cottage, lady, little son · What happens: be, attach, cultivate, not be, go out, glean · To what, where: nice little garden, peas, fields, wants
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nice little garden, cottage, lady, little son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 garden | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cottage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cottage | det |
| 10 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attached | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cultivated | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cultivated | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cultivated | nsubj |
| 15 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 16 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cultivated | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beans | punct |
| 18 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 peas | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cabbages | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cabbages | cc |
| 21 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 peas | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ashamed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ashamed | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ashamed | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ashamed | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 ashamed | advmod |
| 28 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cultivated | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ashamed | xcomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 go | compound:prt |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 time | compound |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 glean | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 glean | cc |
| 37 | glean | glean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 fields | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fields | det |
| 40 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 glean | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 supply | mark |
| 42 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 glean | advcl |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 son | nmod:poss |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 son | amod |
| 45 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wants | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 son | case |
| 47 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 supply | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a nice little garden | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attach | participle | a nice little garden not said here | to the cottage | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cottage=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | cultivate | past | cottage | peas and beans and cabbages | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Product | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | the lady | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go out | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | time | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | glean | infinitive | the lady not said here | the fields | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | supply | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | lady's little son's wants | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | want | lady's little son | nom want «state transitive»: poss=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 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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