The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 27
This cake she prepared with her own hands, and putting it in a little basket, she set out to seek the Fairy.
Who acts: cake, queen · What happens: prepare, put, set out, seek · To what, where: cake, little basket, Fairy
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (cake, queen), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cake | det |
| 2 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prepared | nsubj |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hands | amod |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prepared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 putting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 putting | cc |
| 11 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prepared | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 putting | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 basket | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 basket | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 basket | amod |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seek | mark |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 set | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fairy | det |
| 24 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seek | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | this cake | with queen's own hands | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | put | gerund | this cake not said here | cake | a little basket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination | |||
| 3 | set out | past | queen | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | queen not said here | the Fairy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=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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