The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 61

Hector has an abscess in his back where a wooden chair was flung at him; and Agrippina’s three little kittens have died of hunger beside their mother, because Peppina forgot them in their basket up in the attic.

Who acts: Hector, three little kittens, Peppina · What happens: have, fling, die, forget up · To what, where: abscess, back, wooden chair, kittens, basket

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 (Hector, three little kittens, 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	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 abscess	det
4	abscess	abscess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 abscess	nmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 flung	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chair	det
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chair	amod
11	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flung	aux:pass
13	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 back	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flung	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 died	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 died	cc
18	Agrippina	Agrippina	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 kittens	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Agrippina	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 kittens	nummod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kittens	amod
22	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 died	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 died	aux
24	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 has	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 hunger	case
26	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 died	obl
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hunger	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 forgot	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 forgot	mark
32	Peppina	Peppina	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 forgot	nsubj
33	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 forgot	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 basket	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 basket	nmod:poss
37	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 forgot	obl
38	up	up	ADP	_	33 forgot	compound:prt
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 attic	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 attic	det
41	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 forgot	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hector	a abscess	Hector's back		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abscess=Patient
2	fling	past · passive		a wooden chair		at Hector	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at he=Destination
3	die	present · perfect	Agrippina's three little kittens			of hunger beside kittens's mother	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
4	forget up	past	Peppina	kittens = kitten	kittens's basket	in the attic	tree rules

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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