The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 42

The woman seized Ball-Carrier between her finger and thumb, and was going to carry him to the kitchen, when the boy spoke:

Who acts: woman, boy · What happens: seize, go, carry, speak · To what, where: Ball, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Carrier	punct
6	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ball	conj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 finger	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 finger	nmod:poss
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thumb	cc
11	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finger	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 going	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seized	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 carry	mark
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carry	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 kitchen	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kitchen	det
21	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carry	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spoke	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 spoke	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoke	nsubj
26	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	parataxis
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the woman	Ball and Carrier		between woman's finger and thumb	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	the woman not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	ball	the kitchen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to kitchen=Destination
4	speak speech: other	past	the boy				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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