The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 55
Then the woman fetched from her kitchen a basket, so like the magic one that no one, without looking very closely, could tell the difference, and placed it in Father Grumbler’s hand, while she hid the other carefully away.
Who acts: woman, one · What happens: fetch, look, tell, place, hide · To what, where: basket, kitchen, magic one, hand, other · Speech: someone speaks here
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, one), 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 | 4 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | nsubj |
| 4 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 kitchen | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fetched | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 tell | obj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 looking | mark |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 one | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 closely | advmod |
| 23 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 21 looking | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 difference | det |
| 28 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 placed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 placed | cc |
| 31 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fetched | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 placed | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 34 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Father | flat |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Father | case |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 placed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hid | punct |
| 39 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 hid | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 hid | nsubj |
| 41 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 placed | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 other | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 hid | obj |
| 44 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 45 away | advmod |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 hid | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | the woman | a basket | woman's kitchen | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent basket=Theme from kitchen=Source | ||
| 2 | look | gerund | no one not said here | closely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | could | no one | the magic one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient difference=Topic | ||||
| 4 | place | past | the woman not said here | basket | Father's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Destination | |||
| 5 | hide | past | woman | the other | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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