The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 48
On the floor he saw a pair of gold-embroidered slippers, and one of these he also put in his pocket.
Who acts: Niels, one · What happens: see, embroider, put · To what, where: pair, floor, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, one), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 slippers | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 embroidered | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 gold | punct |
| 11 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 slippers | amod |
| 12 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 put | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 these | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl | ||
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Niels | a pair of embroidered slippers | the floor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | put | past | one of these | Niels's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=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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