The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 8

The girl cooked a good meal, ate and drank with the old man, and did not trouble herself about the animals.

Who acts: girl · What happens: cook, eat, drink, do · To what, where: good meal, trouble

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	nsubj
3	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meal	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meal	amod
6	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cooked	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ate	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cooked	conj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 trouble	advmod
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obj
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 did	obl
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 animals	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 animals	det
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 did	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cook	past	the girl	a good meal		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	eat	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	past			with the old man	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	the girl not said here	trouble	about the animals; girl obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality

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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