The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 138

So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their pinafores, and it was not long before their pinafores were full, too.

Who acts: baskets, ground, pinafores · What happens: put down, begin, fill, not be, be · To what, where: baskets, ground, pinafores

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 (baskets, ground, pinafores), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baskets	det
5	baskets	basket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fill	mark
13	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pinafores	nmod:poss
15	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fill	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 long	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 long	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 long	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 long	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 put	advmod
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 full	mark
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pinafores	nmod:poss
24	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 full	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 long	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
28	too	too	ADV	_	26 full	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put down	past	baskets = basket	the baskets	the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on ground=Destination
2	begin	past	baskets = basket not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fill	to-infinitive	baskets = basket not said here	baskets's pinafores			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinafore=Patient
4	not is	past	ground			long property	tree rules
5	is	past	baskets's pinafores			full property	tree rules

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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