The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 10
And three minutes later he placed a purse full of sequins in the old woman’s hand.
Who acts: master · What happens: place · To what, where: purse
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | _ | 6 placed | cc |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 placed | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 placed | nsubj |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 purse | det |
| 8 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 placed | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sequins | case |
| 11 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sequins | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | master | a purse | full, late property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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