The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 18
Becasigue was glad enough to do as he was bid, and in a few minutes the old woman returned with a basket brimming over with oranges and grapes.
Who acts: Becasigue, old woman, basket · What happens: be, do, bid, return, brim over · To what, where: Becasigue
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becasigue, old woman, basket), 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 | Becasigue | Becasigue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 glad | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 bid | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bid | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bid | aux:pass |
| 10 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 returned | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 minutes | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 minutes | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 minutes | amod |
| 16 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 returned | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | nsubj |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glad | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 basket | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 basket | det |
| 23 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | obl |
| 24 | brimming | brim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 basket | acl |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 brimming | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 oranges | case |
| 27 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brimming | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grapes | cc |
| 29 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 oranges | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Becasigue | enough, glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Becasigue not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | Becasigue | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | return | participle | the old woman | minute | with a basket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | brim over | gerund | a basket not said here | with oranges and grapes; over property | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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