The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 234
So Frisk went back and filled his basket with white bread, and red wine, and every kind of sweetmeat, until it was almost too heavy for him to carry.
Who acts: Frisk, basket · What happens: go back, fill, be, carry · To what, where: red wine, basket
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frisk, basket), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Frisk | frisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 filled | cc |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 basket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bread | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bread | amod |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wine | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wine | cc |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wine | amod |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kind | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kind | cc |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 kind | det |
| 19 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sweetmeat | case |
| 21 | sweetmeat | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kind | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heavy | punct |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 heavy | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 heavy | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heavy | cop |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 27 too | advmod |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 heavy | advmod |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 carry | mark |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 carry | mark |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 heavy | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Frisk | red wine | every kind of sweetmeat obl | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | past | Frisk not said here | Frisk's basket | with white bread | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent basket=Patient with bread=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | past | basket | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | Frisk | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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