The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 45
So Felicia took up her pitcher and ran to her little room, but while she had been away Bruno had gone in and taken the pot of pinks, leaving a great cabbage in its place.
Who acts: Felicia · What happens: take up, run, be away, go in, take, leave · To what, where: pitcher, pot, great cabbage, place
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 gone | cc |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 gone | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 18 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 gone | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 been | advmod |
| 20 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 took | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 gone | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 taken | cc |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 gone | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pot | det |
| 27 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taken | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 pinks | case |
| 29 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pot | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 leaving | punct |
| 31 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 taken | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cabbage | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cabbage | amod |
| 34 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaving | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 place | nmod:poss |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cabbage | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Felicia | Felicia's pitcher | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Felicia not said here | to Felicia's little room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result | ||||
| 3 | be away | participle | Felicia not said here | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in | past · perfect | Felicia | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | participle | Felicia not said here | the pot of pinks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | Felicia not said here | a great cabbage | pot's place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme in place=Location |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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