The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 20
Not long after, Peter came in and picked up the three napkins which the maiden had dropped on the threshold.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: come in, pick up, drop · To what, where: three napkins, maiden, threshold
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 picked | cc |
| 9 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 picked | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 napkins | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 napkins | nummod |
| 13 | napkins | napkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 picked | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dropped | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dropped | aux |
| 18 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 napkins | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 threshold | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 threshold | det |
| 21 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dropped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Peter | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | Peter not said here | the three napkins | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drop | past · perfect · passive | the maiden | the threshold | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination |
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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