The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 55
The daughter had enough to do cracking nuts for him, and at the end of fourteen days she had only one tooth left in her mouth; she had broken all the rest with the nuts.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: have, do, crack, leave, break · To what, where: nuts, one tooth, mouth, rest, end
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 do | xcomp |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cracking | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cracking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 broken | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 broken | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 broken | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 days | acl:relcl |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 tooth | nummod |
| 23 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 tooth | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 end | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 broken | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 broken | aux |
| 31 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 rest | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rest | det |
| 34 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 broken | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 nuts | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 nuts | det |
| 37 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 broken | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the daughter | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the daughter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crack | gerund | the daughter not said here | nuts | for property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | daughter | one tooth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | participle | one tooth not said here | in daughter's mouth result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mouth=Result | ||||
| 6 | break | past · perfect | daughter | all rest | at the end of fourteen days | with the nuts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rest=Patient with nut=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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