The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 96
When the basket was full he took it away and returned with an empty one, which he likewise filled.
Who acts: basket, present · What happens: be, take away, return, fill · To what, where: basket, empty one
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, present), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 full | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 basket | det |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | acl:relcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 took | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 filled | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 filled | nsubj |
| 19 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 20 filled | advmod |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the basket | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take away | past | present | basket | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | participle | present not said here | with a empty one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | present | a empty one | likewise property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=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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