The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 35

Leaving her cart behind some trees, Kisa crept gently up to the open door, and, crouching down, listened to what the giant was telling his wife, who was at supper with him.

Who acts: Kisa, giant, wife · What happens: leave, creep, crouch down, listen, tell, be · To what, where: cart, trees, open door, wife, supper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, giant, wife), 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	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 crept	advcl
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cart	nmod:poss
3	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leaving	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leaving	punct
8	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 crept	nsubj
9	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	gently	gently	ADV	_	9 crept	advmod
11	up	up	ADP	_	15 door	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crouching	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crouching	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crouching	punct
19	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 crept	advcl
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 crouching	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listened	punct
22	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 crouching	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 what	case
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 listened	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 telling	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 telling	aux
28	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 what	acl:relcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 telling	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 supper	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 supper	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 supper	cop
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 supper	case
35	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wife	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 supper	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	Kisa not said here	Kisa's cart		some trees		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cart=Theme behind tree=Location
2	creep	past	Kisa			the open door	gently property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up door=Trajectory
3	crouch down	gerund	Kisa not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	listen	participle						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	the giant		giant's wife and supper			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
6	is	past	giant's wife and supper			supper	with giant	tree rules

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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