The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 48

And besides these he took the milk of seventy-seven sheep, and carried it home to his old mother, that she might bathe in it and grow young again.

Who acts: these, air · What happens: beside, take, carry, bathe, grow · To what, where: milk, old mother

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, air), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 besides	cc
2	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 took	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 besides	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 milk	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 sheep	case
9	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 seven	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 seventy	punct
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sheep	nummod
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 milk	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	home	home	ADV	_	15 carried	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 mother	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mother	amod
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bathe	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 bathe	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bathe	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bathe	aux
26	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 carried	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bathe	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grow	cc
30	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	26 bathe	conj
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grow	xcomp
32	again	again	ADV	_	30 grow	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beside	present						tree rules
2	take	past	these	the milk of seven sheep				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
3	carry	past	these not said here	milk	Stan's old mother		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Destination
4	bathe	might	air				in milk	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme
5	grow	present	air not said here			again	young property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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