The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 39

When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones, dark red, and made in the shape of a ripe raspberry and with an inscription: ‘To Lisa and Aina’; beside them there was a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm: on it was inscribed ‘Otto, never destroy the helpless!’

Who acts: girls, diamond breast pin, raspberry worm · What happens: look, see, make, be, inscribe, not destroy · To what, where: pair, shape, pin, helpless

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, diamond breast pin, raspberry worm), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 was	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 basket	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 basket	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pair	det
11	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 bracelets	case
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 bracelets	amod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bracelets	amod
15	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pair	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 stones	case
17	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stones	amod
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bracelets	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 red	punct
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 red	amod
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pair	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 shape	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shape	det
27	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 raspberry	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 raspberry	det
30	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 raspberry	amod
31	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shape	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 inscription	cc
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 inscription	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 inscription	det
35	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 raspberry	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 Lisa	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 Lisa	punct
38	To	to	ADP	_	39 Lisa	case
39	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	parataxis
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Aina	cc
41	Aina	Aina	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Lisa	conj
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 Lisa	punct
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
44	beside	beside	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 was	obl
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 was	expl
47	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 pin	det
49	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 pin	amod
50	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pin	compound
51	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 was	nsubj
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 shape	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 shape	det
54	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 pin	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 worm	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 worm	det
57	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 worm	compound
58	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shape	nmod
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	63 inscribed	punct
60	on	on	ADP	_	61 it	case
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 inscribed	nsubj:pass
62	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 inscribed	aux:pass
63	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 worm	acl:relcl
64	‘	‘	ADP	_	65 Otto	case
65	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 inscribed	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 destroy	punct
67	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	68 destroy	advmod
68	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	63 inscribed	parataxis
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 helpless	det
70	helpless	helpless	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 destroy	obj
71	!	!	PUNCT	_	68 destroy	punct
72	’	'	PUNCT	_	63 inscribed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the girls			into the basket	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into basket=Theme
2	see	past	girls = girl	a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus
3	make	participle	the girls not said here		the shape of a ripe raspberry and a inscription		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	be	past	a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm		there	beside girls = girl	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Location
5	inscribe	past · passive	a raspberry worm not said here	pin		‘ Otto	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
6	not destroy	infinitive		the helpless			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helpless=Patient

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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