The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 82
“The old fairy gave her golden baskets in which to take the fruit away, and it was as much as four hundred mules could carry.
Who acts: old fairy, wall, hundred mules · What happens: give, take away, be, carry · To what, where: golden baskets, Queen, fruit
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fairy, wall, hundred mules), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairy | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fairy | amod |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 baskets | amod |
| 8 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 take | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 baskets | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fruit | det |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 much | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 much | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 much | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 much | cop |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gave | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 carry | mark |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | compound |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 mules | nummod |
| 25 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 carry | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 carry | aux |
| 27 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 much | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | the old fairy | golden baskets | Queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient basket=Theme | |||
| 2 | take away in a quote | to-infinitive | the old fairy not said here | the fruit | golden baskets | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | wall | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | could | hundred mules | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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