The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 38
As soon as they were inside the dark cave, they put in the eldest princess first, and stirred the basket, and up she went.
Who acts: crowns, princess · What happens: be, put, stir, go · To what, where: dark cave, basket
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowns, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 put | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 cave | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cave | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cave | cop |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cave | amod |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cave | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 princess | amod |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 put | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stirred | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stirred | cc |
| 20 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 basket | det |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stirred | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | crowns = crown | the dark cave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | crowns = crown | in the eldest princess; first, soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in princess=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stir | past | crowns = crown not said here | the basket | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus basket=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go | past | princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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