The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 62
Next, she placed the tripod over it, and the kettle on top.
Who acts: woman · What happens: place · To what, where: tripod
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 placed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Next | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tripod | det |
| 6 | tripod | tripod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kettle | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kettle | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kettle | det |
| 12 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kettle | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | woman | the tripod | tripod | the kettle on top obl; next property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tripod=Theme over it=Destination |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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