The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 93
Next morning Motikatika was sent out with a basket, and told to pick some beans for dinner.
What happens: send out, tell, pick · To what, where: Next morning, beans · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Motikatika | Motikatika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sent | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 basket | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pick | mark |
| 14 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 beans | det |
| 16 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pick | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 dinner | case |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pick | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past · passive | Next morning | with a basket | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | pick not said to happen | to-infinitive | some beans | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bean=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |
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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