The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 47
“I will go now and see what I can get out of the pussies,” said Peppina, the elder girl, one morning, as she took Lizina’s basket and fastened her pockets into her own skirt.
Who acts: Peppina · What happens: go, see, get out, say, take, fasten · To what, where: pussies, basket, pockets · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Peppina), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 get | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pussies | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pussies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pussies | det |
| 15 | pussies | pussy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Peppina | Peppina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 girl | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girl | det |
| 22 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 girl | amod |
| 23 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Peppina | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 morning | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 morning | nummod |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Peppina | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 took | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | parataxis |
| 31 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 basket | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Lizina | case |
| 33 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fastened | cc |
| 35 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 took | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 37 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fastened | obj | |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 skirt | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 skirt | amod |
| 41 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fastened | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Peppina | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Peppina not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get out in a quote | can | Peppina | the pussies | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Peppina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take | past | Peppina | Lizina's basket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fasten | past | Peppina not said here | Peppina's pockets | into Peppina's own skirt | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient into skirt=Co-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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