The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 54
Maria, who was good-natured, swung herself into the garden by the rope, and got the medlars, and was just making the rope fast under her arms so as to be hauled up, when her sister cried: “Oh, there are such delicious lemons a little farther on.
Who acts: Maria, sister · What happens: be, swing, get, make, haul up, cry · To what, where: Maria, garden, medlars, rope, arms, such delicious lemons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria, sister), 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 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 swung | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 natured | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 natured | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 natured | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 natured | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Maria | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maria | punct |
| 9 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 swung | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swung | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 rope | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rope | det |
| 16 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swung | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 medlars | det |
| 21 | medlars | medlar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 making | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 making | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 making | aux |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 making | advmod |
| 26 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 got | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rope | det |
| 28 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 making | obj |
| 29 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 making | advmod |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 arms | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 arms | nmod:poss |
| 32 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 making | obl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 hauled | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 hauled | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 hauled | mark |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 hauled | aux:pass |
| 37 | hauled | haul | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 making | advcl |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 hauled | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 cried | punct |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 cried | advmod |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 sister | nmod:poss |
| 42 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 cried | nsubj |
| 43 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | conj |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 52 lemons | punct |
| 45 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 lemons | punct |
| 46 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 49 are | discourse |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Oh | punct |
| 48 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 49 are | expl |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 lemons | cop |
| 50 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 lemons | amod |
| 51 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 lemons | amod |
| 52 | lemons | lemon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 cried | obl |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 little | det |
| 54 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 farther | obl |
| 55 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 56 on | advmod |
| 56 | on | on | ADV | _ | 52 lemons | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Maria | natured property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swing | past | Maria | Maria | the garden | by the rope | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into garden=Source by rope=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | get | past | the medlars | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medlar=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | the rope | Maria's arms | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product | |||
| 5 | haul up | to-infinitive · passive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | Maria's sister | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | such delicious lemons | 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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