The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 15

Just above him was a bough of ripe, brown nuts, end he picked them and ate a handful.

Who acts: mind · What happens: be, pick, eat · To what, where: bough, nuts, handful

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 bough	advmod
2	above	above	ADP	_	6 bough	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bough	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bough	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bough	det
6	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 nuts	case
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nuts	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ripe	punct
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nuts	amod
11	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bough	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bough	appos
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 picked	nsubj
15	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 end	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 picked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ate	cc
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 picked	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 handful	det
20	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	mind		a bough	of ripe brown nuts	tree rules
2	pick	past	mind	nuts = nut			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	eat	past	mind not said here	a handful			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient

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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