English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 36
Well, she didn't mind doing that, so she got it a bowl of milk and bread, and fed it well.
Who acts: hinny · What happens: not mind, do, get, feed · To what, where: that, supper
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hinny), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 mind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mind | advmod |
| 6 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mind | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 doing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mind | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bowl | det |
| 15 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 milk | case |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bowl | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bread | cc |
| 19 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 milk | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fed | cc |
| 22 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fed | obj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 fed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past · do-support | hinny | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | hinny not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | past | hinny | supper | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary bowl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feed | past | hinny not said here | supper | well property | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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