The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 156

So they made a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature which was quite gentle, and followed Celandine about like a dog when she took it out every day to graze.

Who acts: milk, beautiful creature, dog · What happens: make, be, follow, take out, graze · To what, where: little shelter, Celandine, shelter

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (milk, beautiful creature, dog), 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	_	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shelter	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shelter	amod
6	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 branches	case
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shelter	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 creature	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 branches	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 gentle	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gentle	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 gentle	advmod
16	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 followed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 followed	cc
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 followed	obj
21	about	about	ADV	_	24 dog	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 dog	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 followed	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 took	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 took	compound:prt
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 graze	mark
33	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 day	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	milk	a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shelter=Product
2	is	past	the beautiful creature			gentle property	tree rules
3	follow	past	milk not said here	Celandine		like a dog	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Theme
4	take out	past	dog	shelter	day		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	graze	to-infinitive	dog not said here				vn dine-39.5 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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