The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 93

And he stooped down to pick up the pieces.

Who acts: rock · What happens: stoop down, pick up · To what, where: pieces

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 (rock), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stooped	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stooped	nsubj
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 stooped	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pick	mark
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stooped	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pieces	det
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pick	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop down	past	rock					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	to-infinitive	rock not said here	the pieces					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic

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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