The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 66
So, filling his pockets with the gold, he carefully locked the empty cupboard again and left the house without further delay.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: fill, lock, leave · To what, where: pockets, empty cupboard, house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | _ | 12 locked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 locked | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filling | obj | |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 filling | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 locked | nsubj |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 locked | advmod |
| 12 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cupboard | det |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cupboard | amod |
| 15 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 locked | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 locked | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 locked | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 delay | case |
| 22 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 delay | amod |
| 23 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | gerund | Peter not said here | Peter's pockets | with the gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 2 | lock | past | Peter | the empty cupboard | again | carefully property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cupboard=Patient | ||
| 3 | leave | past | Peter not said here | the house | without further delay | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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