The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 45
She made a bread-soup as well as she possibly could, and when it was done, she fetched her gold ring from her little room, and laid it in the tureen in which the soup was to be served up.
Who acts: cook · What happens: make, do, fetch, lay, serve up · To what, where: bread soup, soup, gold ring, little room, tureen
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 soup | det |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soup | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bread | punct |
| 6 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 well | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 made | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 11 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 12 could | advmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 well | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fetched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fetched | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 done | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fetched | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fetched | nsubj |
| 21 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ring | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ring | amod |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fetched | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 room | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 room | nmod:poss |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 room | amod |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fetched | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 laid | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 laid | cc |
| 31 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 laid | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 tureen | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tureen | det |
| 35 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laid | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 served | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 soup | det |
| 39 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 served | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 served | aux:pass |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 served | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 served | aux:pass |
| 43 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 tureen | acl:relcl |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 served | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | cook | a bread soup | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Product | |||
| 2 | do | past · passive | soup | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fetch | past | cook | cook's gold ring | cook's little room | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from room=Source | |||
| 4 | lay | past | cook not said here | soup | the tureen | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in tureen=Destination | |||
| 5 | serve up | past · passive | cook not said here | the soup | the tureen | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in which=Location |
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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