The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 23
She was very devoted to a certain little calf in the herd, and made a great pet of it, feeding it out of her own hands.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: be, make, feed · To what, where: great pet, pet, own hands
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 devoted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 devoted | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 devoted | advmod |
| 4 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 calf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 calf | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 calf | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 calf | amod |
| 9 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 devoted | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 herd | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herd | det |
| 12 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calf | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 devoted | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pet | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pet | amod |
| 18 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pet | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feeding | punct |
| 22 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 made | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feeding | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 hands | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hands | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hands | amod |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 feeding | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 devoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Helena | to a certain little calf in the herd; devoted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a great pet of pet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pet=Product | |||||
| 3 | feed | gerund | pet | Helena's own hands | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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 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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