The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 80
However, he had no thoughts to spare for its beauty, and quickly buried his grain of sand in the earth.
Who acts: child, thoughts · What happens: have, spare, bury · To what, where: thoughts, grain, earth
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, thoughts), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 thoughts | det |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spare | mark |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buried | cc |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 buried | advmod |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grain | nmod:poss |
| 17 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buried | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sand | case |
| 19 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grain | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 earth | det |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | child | no thoughts | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | no thoughts not said here | for FROG's beauty | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bury | past | child not said here | child's grain of sand | the earth | quickly property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grain=Theme in earth=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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