The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 61
But when I pull the cord again, lose no time in drawing the basket up.”
Who acts: I · What happens: pull, lose, draw up · To what, where: cord, basket
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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lose | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 pull | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lose | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cord | det |
| 6 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 pull | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 drawing | mark |
| 13 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lose | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 basket | det |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 drawing | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | I | the cord | again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | present | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw up | gerund | the basket | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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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