The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 141
Both girls took a basket in one hand and held up her apron in the other and then turned to go home.
Who acts: girls · What happens: take, hold up, turn, go · To what, where: basket, one hand, apron, other
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 (girls), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hand | nummod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 held | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 apron | nmod:poss |
| 13 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 held | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 turned | advmod |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | both girls | a basket | one hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent basket=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | hold up | past | both girls not said here | girl's apron | the other | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot apron=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | both girls not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | both girls not said here | home property | 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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