The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 60
See! there is a basket that will do for me to sit in, and a cord to lower me with.
Who acts: you, basket · What happens: see, be, do, sit in, lower · To what, where: cord, me · 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 (you, basket), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 basket | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sit | mark |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 sit | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cord | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cord | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cord | det |
| 18 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lower | mark |
| 20 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cord | acl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lower | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 lower | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | a basket | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | future | a basket | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sit in | to-infinitive | a basket not said here | a cord | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lower | to-infinitive | a basket not said here | me | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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