The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 171
So she took the bones out of her bundle, and having thought for a moment, she placed the two ends together.
Who acts: door · What happens: take, think, place · To what, where: bones, bundle, two ends
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bones | det |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 bundle | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bundle | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | aux |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 placed | nsubj |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ends | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 ends | nummod |
| 22 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 placed | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 placed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | door | the bones | door's bundle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bone=Theme out bundle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund · perfect | door not said here | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | place | past | door | the two ends | together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent end=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 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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