The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 51

Then he took the peas which were in the shells and put them in the boats for cargo.

Who acts: Lasse, peas · What happens: take, be, put · To what, where: peas, shells, boats

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 (Lasse, peas), 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	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peas	det
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 shells	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shells	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shells	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shells	det
10	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 peas	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 boats	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boats	det
16	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 cargo	case
18	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boats	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Lasse	the peas		then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Theme
2	is	past	the peas		the shells		tree rules
3	put	infinitive	Lasse not said here	shells = shell	the boats for cargo		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in boat=Destination

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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