The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 36

Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high above his cap, and he picked seventeen large shells, the longest and straightest he could find.

Who acts: Little Lasse, pea stalks, Lasse · What happens: creep, rise, pick, find · To what, where: pea bed, cap, seventeen large shells

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse, pea stalks, Lasse), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Lasse	amod
2	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 bed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bed	compound
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 rose	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stalks	det
10	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stalks	compound
11	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rose	nsubj
12	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	advcl
13	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 rose	advmod
14	above	above	ADP	_	16 cap	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cap	nmod:poss
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rose	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 picked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 picked	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 picked	nsubj
20	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
21	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 shells	nummod
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shells	amod
23	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 picked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 straightest	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 straightest	det
26	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 straightest	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 straightest	cc
28	straightest	straight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 picked	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 straightest	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	Little Lasse		the pea bed		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
2	rise	past	the pea stalks		Lasse's cap	high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above cap=Location
3	pick	past	Lasse	seventeen large shells			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
4	find	could	Lasse				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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 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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