The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 9

He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all in the prettiest places he could find; after which he tapped them with his golden rod, and they became castles again.

Who acts: Paul, apples · What happens: take, place, find, tap, become · To what, where: three apples, pocket, apples, prettiest places, castles

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 (Paul, apples), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apples	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 apples	nummod
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 them	nmod:unmarked
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 places	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 places	det
17	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 places	amod
18	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 placed	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 places	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tapped	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 tapped	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tapped	nsubj
26	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tapped	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 rod	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 rod	nmod:poss
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rod	amod
31	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tapped	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 became	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
36	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 became	xcomp
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 became	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Paul	the three apples	Paul's pocket		next property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
2	place	past	Paul not said here	apples = apple	the prettiest places			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Destination
3	find	could	Paul	the prettiest places not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
4	tap	past	Paul	apples = apple			with Paul's golden rod	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with rod=Instrument
5	become	past	apples = apple	castles		again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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