Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 57
She then put down a large pot of new milk, which she made into curds and whey.
Who acts: wife, new milk · What happens: put down, make · To what, where: large pot, curds
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, new milk), 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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pot | amod |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 milk | case |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 milk | amod |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 milk | acl:relcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 curds | case |
| 16 | curds | curd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whey | cc |
| 18 | whey | whey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 curds | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | wife | a large pot of new milk | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pot=Goal | |||
| 2 | make | past | new milk | curds and whey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into curd=Product |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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