The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 119

Then she picked up Kabo, and put him in the shed, and told him what to do when the Black Ant came, and what to do when the Red Ant came.

Who acts: woman, Black Ant, Red Ant · What happens: pick up, put, tell, do, come · To what, where: Kabo, shed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Black Ant, Red Ant), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 picked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
5	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 put	cc
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 picked	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 shed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shed	det
12	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Ant	det
22	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Ant	compound
23	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 do	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 do	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 do	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 picked	conj
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Ant	det
32	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Ant	flat
33	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 do	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	pick up	past	woman	Kabo			then	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kabo=Topic
2	put	infinitive	woman not said here	Kabo		the shed		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in shed=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	woman not said here		Kabo			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	come	past	the Black Ant					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	come	past	the Red Ant					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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