The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 10
Besides which, she had no food but a little black bread, and no bed but a little straw.
Who acts: princess · What happens: have · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 which | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 bread | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bread | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bread | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bread | amod |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bed | cc |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 bed | det |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | conj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 straw | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 straw | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 straw | amod |
| 20 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | princess | no food but a little black bread and no bed but a little straw | tree rules |
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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