The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 21
I put my cows and sheep into my coat pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo.
Who acts: I · What happens: put, get · To what, where: cows, coat pockets, board
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cows | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sheep | cc |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cows | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pockets | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pockets | compound |
| 10 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl | |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 board | case |
| 15 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 cargo | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 cargo | det:predet |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cargo | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cargo | amod |
| 20 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | I | my cows and sheep | my coat pockets | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cow=Goal | |||
| 2 | get | past | board | with my little cargo | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on board=Source |
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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