The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 111
But Lisa took a raspberry leaf, swept the worm carefully on to the leaf and carried it out into the yard.
Who acts: Lisa · What happens: take, sweep, carry out · To what, where: raspberry leaf, worm, leaf
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lisa), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 leaf | det |
| 5 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaf | compound |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swept | punct |
| 8 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 worm | det |
| 10 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swept | obj |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 swept | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 leaf | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 leaf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 leaf | det |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swept | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carried | cc |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swept | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 yard | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 yard | det |
| 22 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Lisa | a raspberry leaf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | Lisa not said here | the worm | the leaf | carefully property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent worm=Theme on leaf=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | carry out | past | Lisa not said here | leaf | into the yard | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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