The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 102
Then the woman gently coaxed the cock from the basket and carried it off to her own poultry yard, from which she brought one exactly like it, and popped it in its place.
Who acts: woman · What happens: coax, carry off, bring, pop · To what, where: cock, basket, one, place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | 5 coaxed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coaxed | nsubj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 coaxed | advmod |
| 5 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cock | det |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coaxed | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 basket | det |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coaxed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coaxed | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 carried | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 yard | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 yard | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 yard | amod |
| 18 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yard | compound |
| 19 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 brought | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | conj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 brought | obj |
| 26 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 28 it | advmod |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 popped | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 popped | cc |
| 31 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coaxed | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 popped | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 place | nmod:poss |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 popped | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coaxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coax | past | the woman | the cock | the basket | then | gently property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | |
| 2 | carry off | past | the woman not said here | basket | to woman's own poultry yard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to yard=Destination | |||
| 3 | bring | past | woman | one | like yard | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme from which=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | pop | past | the woman not said here | basket | basket's place | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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