The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 17
His mother only gave him a very plain cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and a bottle of sour beer.
Who acts: mother · What happens: give, make, bake · To what, where: plain cake, Dullhead
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cake | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 plain | advmod |
| 8 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cake | amod |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cake | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 baked | cc |
| 14 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cinders | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cinders | det |
| 17 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 baked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bottle | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bottle | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bottle | det |
| 21 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 beer | case |
| 23 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beer | amod |
| 24 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bottle | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Dullhead's mother | a plain cake | Dullhead | a bottle of sour beer obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | participle | a plain cake not said here | with water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | bake | participle | in the cinders | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in cinder=Instrument |
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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