The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 13
But I immediately relieved them both, and covering the hole with one hand, I set down the troop with the other as I had taken them up.
Who acts: I · What happens: relieve, cover, set down, take up · To what, where: horses, hole, troop
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 relieved | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 relieved | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 relieved | advmod |
| 4 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 relieved | obj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 relieved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 covering | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 covering | cc |
| 9 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 relieved | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covering | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hand | nummod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covering | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 relieved | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 troop | det |
| 20 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 other | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 set | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 taken | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 taken | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 taken | aux |
| 27 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 set | parataxis |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 taken | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 taken | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 relieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relieve | past | I | horses = horse | immediately property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer both=Result | |||
| 2 | cover | gerund | I not said here | the hole | with one hand | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Destination with hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | set down | past | I | the troop | with the other | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent troop=Patient with other=Instrument | |||
| 4 | take up | past · perfect | I | horses = horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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