The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 46

The little fellow was quite willing, and she gave him the biggest share of her pancakes.

Who acts: little fellow, mother · What happens: be, give, share · To what, where: biggest share, fellow, pancakes

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 (little fellow, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 willing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 willing	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 willing	advmod
6	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 willing	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 share	det
13	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 share	amod
14	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 pancakes	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pancakes	nmod:poss
17	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 share	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little fellow			willing property	tree rules
2	give	past	mother	the biggest share of mother's pancakes	fellow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient share=Theme
3	share			mother's pancakes			nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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