The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 125
He used to cut out the clothes, make the first stitch with the magic needle, and then leave it to do the rest.
Who acts: Labakan, plenty · What happens: use, cut out, make, leave, do · To what, where: clothes, first stitch, plenty, rest
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, plenty), 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 | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cut | mark |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clothes | det |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 cut | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cut | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stitch | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 stitch | amod |
| 12 | stitch | stitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 needle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 needle | det |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 needle | compound |
| 16 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stitch | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 leave | advmod |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 leave | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Labakan | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cut out | to-infinitive | Labakan not said here | the clothes | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector clothes=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Labakan not said here | the first stitch | with the magic needle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product | |||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | Labakan not said here | plenty | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | the rest | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality |
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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