The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 113
Boxes were opened that would hardly have held the kitten’s paw; books were taken from bookshelves, lest the kitten should have got behind them, drawers were pulled out, for perhaps the kitten might have got shut in.
Who acts: kitten · What happens: open, hold, take, get, pull out, shut in · To what, where: Boxes, paw, books, bookshelves, drawers
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 (kitten), 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 | Boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | aux:pass |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 held | mark |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 held | aux |
| 6 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 held | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 held | aux |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 opened | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kitten | det |
| 10 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paw | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 kitten | case |
| 12 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 taken | punct |
| 14 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 bookshelves | case |
| 18 | bookshelves | bookshelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 taken | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 20 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 25 got | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kitten | det |
| 22 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 got | aux |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 taken | conj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pulled | punct |
| 29 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 pulled | aux:pass |
| 31 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 taken | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 pulled | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 got | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 got | mark |
| 35 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 40 got | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 kitten | det |
| 37 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 got | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 got | aux |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 got | aux |
| 40 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 pulled | conj |
| 41 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 got | xcomp |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 shut | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | Boxes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | would · perfect | the kitten's paw | hardly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | books | bookshelves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from bookshelf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | should · perfect | the kitten | behind books = book | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pull out | past · passive | drawers | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get | might · perfect | the kitten | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | shut in | participle | the kitten not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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