The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 99

Then she carefully shook up the pillows of the little bed, laid the baby down and tucked the coverlet in all round him.

Who acts: nurse · What happens: shake up, lay down, tuck · To what, where: pillows, baby, coverlet

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse), 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	4 shook	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 shook	advmod
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 shook	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pillows	det
7	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shook	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pillows	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 baby	det
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	13 laid	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tucked	cc
18	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 coverlet	det
20	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tucked	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 him	case
22	all	all	ADV	_	24 him	advmod
23	round	round	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tucked	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shake up	past	nurse	the pillows of the little bed	then	carefully property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pillow=Patient
2	lay down	past	nurse not said here	the baby			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Result
3	tuck	past	nurse not said here	the coverlet		in door	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme in he=Trajectory

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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