The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 61
But she replanted the cabbage very kindly in his old place, and, as she finished doing it, she saw Bruno’s hen, and said, catching hold of it:
Who acts: Felicia · What happens: replant, finish, do, see, say, catch · To what, where: cabbage, old place, place, hen, hold · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 replanted | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 replanted | nsubj |
| 3 | replanted | replant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cabbage | det |
| 5 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replanted | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 kindly | advmod |
| 7 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 3 replanted | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replanted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 finished | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 finished | nsubj |
| 17 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | advcl |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 finished | xcomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 doing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finished | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replanted | conj |
| 23 | Bruno | Bruno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hen | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Bruno | case |
| 25 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replanted | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 catching | punct |
| 30 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 said | advcl |
| 31 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 catching | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hold | nmod |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 replanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replant | past | Felicia | the cabbage | Bruno's old place | kindly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | finish | past | Felicia | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Felicia not said here | place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Felicia | Bruno's hen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hen=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Felicia not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | catch | gerund | Felicia not said here | hold of hold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hold | hold | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 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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