The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 18
However, as she was a good, kindhearted girl, she set to work to pick up the little kittens which tumbled about on the floor, she patched up quarrels, and nursed on her lap a big tabby—the oldest of the community—which had a lame paw.
Who acts: Lizina, little kittens, big tabby · What happens: be, set, work, pick up, tumble, patch up · To what, where: good kindhearted girl, little kittens, floor, quarrels, big tabby, lap
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lizina, little kittens, big tabby), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 girl | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | kindhearted | kindhearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pick | mark |
| 17 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 pick | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kittens | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kittens | amod |
| 21 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tumbled | nsubj |
| 23 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kittens | acl:relcl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 tumbled | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tumbled | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 patched | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 patched | nsubj |
| 30 | patched | patch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 patched | compound:prt |
| 32 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 patched | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 nursed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 nursed | cc |
| 35 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 set | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 lap | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 lap | nmod:poss |
| 38 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nursed | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tabby | det |
| 40 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tabby | amod |
| 41 | tabby | tabby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nursed | obj |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 oldest | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 oldest | det |
| 44 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 tabby | appos |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 community | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 community | det |
| 47 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 oldest | obl |
| 48 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 had | punct |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 had | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tabby | parataxis |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 paw | det |
| 52 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 paw | amod |
| 53 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 had | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Lizina | a good kindhearted girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Lizina | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | Lizina not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pick up | to-infinitive | Lizina not said here | the little kittens | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitten=Topic | ||||
| 5 | tumble | past | the little kittens | the floor | about property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 6 | patch up | past | Lizina | quarrels | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent quarrel=Destination | ||||
| 7 | nurse | participle | Lizina not said here | a big tabby | Lizina's lap | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabby=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | have | past | a big tabby | a lame paw | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=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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