The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 107
“It was all in little bits, and I took it to our sister the frog to ask her to sew it for me.
Who acts: apple, useless creature · What happens: be, take, ask, sew · To what, where: little bits, apple, sister, frog
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, useless creature), 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 | _ | 7 bits | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bits | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bits | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 bits | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bits | case |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bits | amod |
| 7 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bits | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sister | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 frog | det |
| 17 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sister | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ask | mark |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sew | mark |
| 22 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sew | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | apple | little bits | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | what useless creature = creature | apple | our sister the frog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sister=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | what useless creature = creature not said here | frog | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sew not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | what useless creature = creature not said here | apple | for what useless creature = creature | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for i=Beneficiary |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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