The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 50
‘Every day fresh food, meat twice a week, butter and vegetables, your summer and winter clothes, and a portion of land for your own use.’
Who acts: your · What happens: use
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (your), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 2 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 food | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 meat | punct |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 week | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 butter | punct |
| 12 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vegetables | cc |
| 14 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 day | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 summer | punct |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 summer | nmod:poss |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clothes | cc |
| 19 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clothes | compound |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 day | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 portion | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 portion | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 portion | det |
| 24 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 portion | nmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 use | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 use | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 use | amod |
| 30 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 portion | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | your | nom use «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 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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