The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 26
Next day he wove a basket out of some rushes, so that if he ever left the island he might be able to carry his treasures about.
Who acts: shrinking · What happens: weave, leave, be, carry, treasure · To what, where: basket, rushes, island, treasures
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 (shrinking), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wove | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wove | nsubj |
| 4 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wove | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 rushes | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rushes | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 rushes | det |
| 10 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 basket | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 able | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 able | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 left | advmod |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wove | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 27 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carry | obj |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 carry | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | past | shrinking | a basket | some rushes | day | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product | ||
| 2 | leave a condition, not said to happen | past | shrinking | the island | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | might | shrinking | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | shrinking not said here | shrinking's treasures | about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 5 | treasure | shrinking | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 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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