The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 69

Now one day Maria stole secretly to the house where her elder sister lived, and snatching up the children put them into a beautiful basket she had with her, covered with flowers inside and out, so that no one would ever guess it held two babies.

Who acts: Maria, elder sister, snatching, sister, one, basket · What happens: steal, live, snatch up, put, have, cover · To what, where: children, mothers, beautiful basket, two babies · 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, elder sister, snatching, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stole	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obl:unmarked
4	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stole	nsubj
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 stole	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 lived	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
12	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sister	amod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
17	snatching	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 put	csubj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 snatching	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 snatching	obj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stole	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 basket	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 basket	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 basket	amod
26	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 basket	acl:relcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 basket	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 flowers	case
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 covered	obl
35	inside	inside	ADV	_	32 covered	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 out	cc
37	out	out	ADV	_	35 inside	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 guess	punct
39	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	45 guess	mark
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 so	fixed
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 one	det
42	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 guess	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 guess	aux
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 guess	advmod
45	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 put	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 held	nsubj
47	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 guess	ccomp
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 babies	nummod
49	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 held	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Maria			now; day	to the house; secretly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	Maria's elder sister					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snatch up	gerund		the children				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	put	past	snatching	mothers = mother	a beautiful basket			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
5	have	past	sister	a beautiful basket not said here			with Maria	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
6	cover	participle	snatching not said here				with flowers; inside property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
7	guess	would	no one			ever		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	hold	past	basket	two babies				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

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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