The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 6

So the old mother smartened up their clothes, and gave them a store of provisions for their journey, not forgetting to add a bottle of brandy.

Who acts: old mother, brothers · What happens: smarten up, give, not forget, add, journey · To what, where: clothes, store, bottle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mother, brothers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 smartened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smartened	nsubj
5	smartened	smarten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 smartened	compound:prt
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 clothes	nmod:poss
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 smartened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smartened	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 store	det
14	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 provisions	case
16	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 store	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 journey	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 journey	nmod:poss
19	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 forgetting	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 forgetting	advmod
22	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gave	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 add	mark
24	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forgetting	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bottle	det
26	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 add	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 brandy	case
28	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bottle	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smartened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	smarten up	past	the old mother	brothers's clothes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
2	give	past	the old mother not said here	a store of provisions	clothes	for brothers's journey	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient store=Theme for journey=Asset
3	not forget	gerund	the old mother not said here				tree rules
4	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	the old mother not said here	a bottle of brandy			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
5	journey		brothers = brother				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 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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