The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 53
She got up, shook out the pillow-cases one by one, and began to count the feathers that were in each.
Who acts: ogress · What happens: get up, shake out, begin, count · To what, where: pillow cases, feathers
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 shook | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cases | det |
| 8 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cases | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 pillow | punct |
| 10 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shook | obj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 cases | flat |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 count | mark |
| 18 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 feathers | det |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 count | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 were | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 were | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | ogress | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | shake out | past | ogress not said here | the pillow cases | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent case=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | ogress not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | count | to-infinitive | ogress not said here | the feathers | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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