The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 7

Then he rose and walked a little further, till he saw a tree with great red apples shining amidst the leaves, and he pulled some down, and ate them greedily.

Who acts: mind, great red apples · What happens: rise, walk, see, shine, pull down, eat · To what, where: tree, some, trees

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, great red apples), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rose	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walked	cc
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 further	obl
8	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 walked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 saw	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 apples	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apples	amod
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apples	amod
18	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obl
19	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 apples	acl
20	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	22 leaves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shining	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pulled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pulled	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pulled	nsubj
26	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 pulled	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 pulled	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ate	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ate	cc
31	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rose	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ate	obj
33	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	31 ate	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	mind		then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	mind not said here			far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	mind	a tree		with great red apples	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	shine	gerund	great red apples not said here			amidst the leaves	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pull down	past	mind	some			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
6	eat	past	mind not said here	trees = tree		greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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