The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 79
So when they had agreed on this, they lowered the rope.
Who acts: beauties · What happens: agree, lower · To what, where: rope
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauties), 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 | _ | 5 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 agreed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | aux |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 agreed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lowered | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lowered | nsubj |
| 10 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rope | det |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lowered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | beauties = beauty | on this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lower | past | beauties = beauty | the rope | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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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