The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 84
Each one had made for his hole as fast as his legs could carry him, so that the Princess could safely take her pot of pinks.
Who acts: legs, Princess · What happens: make, carry, take · To what, where: one, Bruno, pot
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 (legs, Princess), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hole | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 made | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fast | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 take | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 22 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pot | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pinks | case |
| 27 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pot | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | each one | for Bruno's hole; fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for hole=Asset | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | Bruno's legs | Bruno | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | could | the Princess | Princess's pot of pinks | safely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=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 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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