The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 40

Thereupon he hastened into the nearest field and dug up a dozen or so of different roots—carrots, turnips, and radishes—and laying them carefully in an elegant basket brought them to the princess, who sat pensive in the shade of the rose-bower.

Who acts: mortal, radishes, carrots, princess · What happens: hasten, dig up, lay, bring, sit, shade · To what, where: nearest field, dozen, carrots, elegant basket, radishes, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal, radishes, carrots, princess), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
6	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 field	amod
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hastened	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dug	cc
9	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hastened	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 dug	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dozen	det
12	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 dug	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 brought	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	34 brought	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 roots	case
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 roots	amod
17	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 brought	obl
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 carrots	punct
19	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 brought	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turnips	punct
21	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carrots	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 radishes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 radishes	cc
24	radishes	radish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 carrots	conj
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 laying	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laying	cc
27	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 radishes	acl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laying	obj
29	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 laying	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 basket	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 basket	det
32	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 basket	amod
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laying	obl
34	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dozen	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 brought	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 princess	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princess	det
38	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brought	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sat	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 sat	nsubj
41	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 princess	acl:relcl
42	pensive	pensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sat	xcomp
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 shade	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 shade	det
45	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sat	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	50 bower	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 bower	det
48	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bower	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 rose	punct
50	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shade	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	mortal			the nearest field	thereupon property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination
2	dig up	participle	mortal not said here	a dozen				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme
3	lay	gerund	radishes not said here	carrots = carrot		a elegant basket	carefully property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in basket=Destination
4	bring	past	carrots and turnips and radishes	radishes = radish	the princess		of different roots	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme of root=Initial_Location to princess=Destination
5	sit	past	the princess			the shade of the rose bower	pensive property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
6	shade			the rose bower				nom shade «state transitive»: of=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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