The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 246

His surprise was great when he presently saw a little green dog with one ear slip softly into the kitchen, uncover the pot, transfer all its contents to his basket, and run off.

Who acts: surprise, thing · What happens: be, see, slip, uncover, transfer, run off · To what, where: little green dog, kitchen, pot, contents, 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 (surprise, thing), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 surprise	nmod:poss
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 great	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	cop
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
7	presently	presently	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dog	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 ear	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 ear	nummod
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slip	obl
16	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	parataxis
17	softly	softly	ADV	_	16 slip	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 kitchen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kitchen	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slip	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 uncover	punct
22	uncover	uncover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 slip	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pot	det
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uncover	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 transfer	punct
26	transfer	transfer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 uncover	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 contents	det:predet
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 contents	nmod:poss
29	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 transfer	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 basket	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 basket	nmod:poss
32	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 contents	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 run	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 run	cc
35	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 uncover	conj
36	off	off	ADP	_	35 run	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing's surprise				great property	tree rules
2	see	past	thing	a little green dog			presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
3	slip	present				the kitchen	with one ear; softly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	uncover	infinitive		the pot				tree rules
5	transfer	infinitive		pot's contents	thing's basket			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent contents=Theme to basket=Recipient
6	run off	infinitive						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	surprise		thing					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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