The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 21
Then she tapped the next cask, and out came a bushel of gold pieces.
Who acts: duchess · What happens: tap, come · To what, where: next cask, bushel
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duchess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tapped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tapped | nsubj |
| 3 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cask | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cask | amod |
| 6 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tapped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tapped | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bushel | det |
| 12 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | compound |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bushel | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tap | past | duchess | the next cask | then | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cask=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | duchess not said here | a bushel of gold pieces | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bushel=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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