The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 43

Then Kisa entered the hut, and lost no time in searching every hole till she came upon some grass, under which Ingibjorg’s feet were hidden, and putting them in her cart, drove back again to her own hut.

Who acts: Kisa, time · What happens: enter, lose, search, come, hide, put · To what, where: hut, hole, grass, feet, cart, own hut

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, time), 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 entered	advmod
2	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lost	cc
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 searching	mark
12	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 time	acl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hole	det
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 searching	obj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 came	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	advcl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 grass	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 grass	det
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hidden	punct
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 hidden	obl
24	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 feet	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Ingibjorg	case
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hidden	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hidden	aux:pass
28	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 came	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 drove	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 drove	cc
31	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 drove	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 putting	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 cart	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cart	nmod:poss
35	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 putting	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 putting	punct
37	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entered	conj
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 drove	advmod
39	again	again	ADV	_	37 drove	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 hut	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hut	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hut	amod
43	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drove	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	enter	past	Kisa	the hut		then	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
2	lose	past	Kisa not said here			time	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	search	gerund	no time not said here	every hole			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Location
4	come	past	Kisa		some grass		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Location
5	hide	past · passive		Ingibjorg's feet			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under which=Location
6	put	gerund		feet = foot	Kisa's cart		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cart=Destination
7	drive back	past	Kisa not said here		Kisa's own hut	again	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hut=Trajectory

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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