The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 35
And the lid of the basket closed with a snap.
What happens: close · To what, where: basket
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lid | det |
| 3 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 basket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lid | nmod |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 basket | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 snap | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snap | det |
| 10 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 closed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | the basket not said here | with a snap | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snap=Theme |
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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