--- title: ‘She is fat and well-liking,’ replied the youth, ‘for the women borr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘She is fat and well-liking,’ replied the youth, ‘for the women borrow her mortar to clean their corn, and borrow her pot to cook it in, and for al this they give her more food than she can eat.’ Who acts: sister, women, things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, women, things), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:20:61 # text = ‘She is fat and well-liking,’ replied the youth, ‘for the women borrow her mortar to clean their corn, and borrow her pot to cook it in, and for al this they give her more food than she can eat.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 liking like VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ‘ CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 borrow borrow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 borrow borrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 cook cook VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 al al DET PDT PronType=Tot 39 det:predet _ _ 39 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 obl _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ _ 43 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 44 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 than than SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | sister | | | | | fat *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **like** | gerund | sister *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | | the youth | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | | 4 | **borrow** | present | the women | sister's mortar | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Theme | | 5 | **clean** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | things's corn | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | | 6 | **borrow** | infinitive | the women *not said here* | sister's pot | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | | 7 | **cook in** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* | corn | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **give** | present | things *= thing* | more food | sister | | | for this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme for this=Asset | | 9 | **eat** | can | sister | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/62/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/20/)