The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 102

The basket was still there, dangling from the rope, but it was only big enough to hold the three girls, so Paul sent them up, and told them to be sure and let down the basket for him.

Who acts: basket, Paul · What happens: be, dangle, hold, send up, tell, let down · To what, where: rope, three girls, heads, basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, Paul), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dangling	punct
7	dangling	dangle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 there	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 rope	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rope	det
10	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dangling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 big	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 big	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 big	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 big	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dangling	parataxis
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hold	mark
19	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 big	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girls	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 girls	nummod
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hold	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 sent	advmod
25	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sent	nsubj
26	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sent	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 sent	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 told	cc
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sent	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 sure	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 sure	cop
35	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 told	ccomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sure	conj
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 let	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 basket	det
40	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 let	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the basket				still	there property	tree rules
2	dangle	gerund	the basket not said here			the rope			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	basket					big, enough property	tree rules
4	hold	to-infinitive	basket not said here	the three girls					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
5	send up	past	Paul	heads = head					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	Paul not said here		heads = head				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
7	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						sure property	tree rules
8	let down	infinitive		the basket				for Paul	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent basket=Theme for he=Asset

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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