More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 89
So she shook the fruit all off, propped up the branches, and left the fruit on the ground under the tree.
Who acts: tree · What happens: shake, prop up, leave · To what, where: fruit, branches, ground
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 shook | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fruit | det |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 propped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 propped | punct |
| 9 | propped | prop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 propped | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 propped | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fruit | det |
| 17 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | tree | the fruit | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | prop up | participle | tree not said here | the branches | off property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | tree not said here | the fruit | the ground | under the tree | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme on ground=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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