The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 95
This she agreed to do, and then they shut the basket and lowered it carefully, baby and all, to the ground at the foot of the tower.
Who acts: This, straws · What happens: agree, do, shut, lower · To what, where: basket, ground
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, straws), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shut | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 shut | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shut | nsubj |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 basket | det |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lowered | cc |
| 14 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lowered | obj |
| 16 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 lowered | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 baby | punct |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lowered | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 all | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 baby | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ground | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lowered | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 foot | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 foot | det |
| 27 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ground | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tower | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tower | det |
| 30 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 foot | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | This | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shut | present | straws = straw | the basket | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | |||
| 4 | lower | past | This not said here | basket | the ground at the foot of the tower | baby obl; carefully property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ground=Destination |
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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