The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 7

Then I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground.

Who acts: I · What happens: take, tie · To what, where: four other sticks, sticks, corner

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sticks	nummod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sticks	amod
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tied	cc
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	obj
11	parallel	parallel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tied	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 corner	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 corner	det
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feet	punct
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 two	advmod
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 feet	nummod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 corner	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feet	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	four other sticks			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	tie	past	I not said here	sticks = stick		each corner and two feet from the ground		parallel property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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