The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 13

The knapsack was lying on the ground among the fern, but the prince picked it up, and, unfastening the strap, took out his second flask of wine and another loaf of bread.

Who acts: knapsack, prince · What happens: lie, pick up, unfasten, take out · To what, where: ground, knapsack, strap, second flask

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knapsack, prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knapsack	det
2	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 fern	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fern	det
10	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 picked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 picked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picked	nsubj
15	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 picked	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 picked	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unfastening	punct
21	unfastening	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 took	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 strap	det
23	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unfastening	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unfastening	punct
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 picked	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 took	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 flask	nmod:poss
28	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 flask	amod
29	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 wine	case
31	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flask	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 loaf	cc
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 loaf	det
34	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wine	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 bread	case
36	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 loaf	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the knapsack		the ground	among the fern	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2	pick up	past	the prince	knapsack			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	unfasten	gerund		the strap			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Patient
4	take out	past	the prince not said here	prince's second flask of wine and another loaf of bread			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=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 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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