The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 62
And he stepped into the basket, which was lowered by his friends.
Who acts: fellow, friends · What happens: step, lower · To what, where: 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 (fellow, friends), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stepped | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 basket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lowered | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lowered | aux:pass |
| 10 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 basket | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lowered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | fellow | the basket | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lower | past · passive | fellow's friends | the basket | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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