The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 45

So the boy got up and picked some of the ripest pears and put them into a rush basket.

Who acts: boy · What happens: get up, pick, put · To what, where: some, pears, rush basket

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 picked	cc
7	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 picked	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 pears	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pears	det
11	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 pears	amod
12	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 some	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 picked	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 basket	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 basket	det
18	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 basket	compound
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get up	past	the boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pick	past	the boy not said here	some		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	put	infinitive	the boy not said here	pears = pear	a rush basket	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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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