The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 99

My mother likes something rather moral and high-flown, and my father likes something merry to make him laugh.’

Who acts: mother, father · What happens: like, fly, make, laugh · To what, where: something, father

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 likes	obj
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 moral	advmod
6	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flown	cc
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flown	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
10	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 moral	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 likes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 likes	cc
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 likes	nsubj
15	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likes	conj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 likes	obj
17	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 something	amod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 merry	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 make	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 likes	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 likes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	present	My mother	something	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
2	fly	participle	My mother not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	present	my father	something	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	my father not said here	father	tree rules
5	laugh	infinitive	father not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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