The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 68
As soon as his mother was out of sight, the baby took out some magic bones, and placed them in a row before him.
Who acts: mother, baby · What happens: be, take out, place · To what, where: sight, magic bones, bones, row
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, baby), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 sight | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sight | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soon | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sight | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baby | det |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 bones | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bones | compound |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 placed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 placed | cc |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 row | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 row | det |
| 24 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beast's mother | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | the baby | some magic bones | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 3 | place | past | the baby not said here | bones = bone | a row | before beast | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in row=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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