The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 81

Quick as lightning the crab picked them up and carried a quantity of them into her house, but when she came up for another the monkey sprang on her, and treated her so badly that he left her for dead.

Who acts: crab, few, monkey · What happens: pick up, carry, come up, spring, treat, leave · To what, where: somersaults, quantity, house, few

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, few, monkey), 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	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lightning	case
2	as	as	ADP	_	1 Quick	fixed
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crab	det
5	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	nsubj
6	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 picked	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 picked	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 quantity	det
12	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quantity	nmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 house	nmod:poss
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sprang	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 sprang	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sprang	advcl
23	up	up	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 another	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 came	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 monkey	det
27	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sprang	nsubj
28	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sprang	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 treated	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 treated	cc
33	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 treated	obj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 badly	advmod
36	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 treated	advmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 left	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	nsubj
39	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 treated	advcl
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 dead	case
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 left	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the crab	somersaults = somersault			quick lightning	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	carry	past	the crab not said here	a quantity of somersaults		few's house		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
3	come up	past	few				for another	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring	past	the monkey				on few	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Trajectory
5	treat	past	the crab not said here		few		badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	leave	past	Monkey	few			for dead	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme for dead=Recipient

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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