The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 82

He opened it quickly, and there upon a white cushion they saw a dog so small that it could easily have been put through a ring.

Who acts: youngest, brothers · What happens: open, see, put · To what, where: kingdom, dog, ring

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, brothers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 opened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 saw	expl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 cushion	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cushion	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cushion	amod
11	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 small	advmod
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saw	xcomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 put	aux
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 put	aux:pass
24	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 small	advcl
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 ring	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ring	det
27	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	youngest = young	kingdom		quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	see	past	brothers = brother	a dog	there	upon a white cushion; small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
3	put	could · perfect · passive		kingdom	a ring	easily property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme through ring=Destination

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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