The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 11
These he picked up and put in a bag, which he slung over his back.
Who acts: These, fox · What happens: pick up, put, sling · To what, where: bag, back
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, fox), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 picked | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slung | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 slung | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slung | nsubj |
| 13 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bag | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | These | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | These not said here | a bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bag=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sling | past | fox | a bag | fox's back | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent which=Theme over back=Destination |
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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