The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 44

She picked it up, and after a moment’s consideration decided that it must belong to the curious old cabinet in the corner, which had no visible keyhole.

Who acts: Princess, attention, corner, moment · What happens: pick up, decide, belong, have, consider · To what, where: attention, visible keyhole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, attention, corner, moment), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decided	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 decided	cc
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 consideration	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consideration	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 moment	case
11	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decided	obl
12	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 belong	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 belong	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 belong	aux
16	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decided	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 cabinet	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cabinet	det
19	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cabinet	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cabinet	amod
21	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 belong	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cabinet	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 corner	acl:relcl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 keyhole	det
29	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 keyhole	amod
30	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	Princess	attention			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	decide	past	Princess not said here		after a moment's consideration		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	belong	must	attention			to the curious old cabinet in the corner	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	the corner	no visible keyhole			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keyhole=Patient
5	consider		a moment				nom consideration «cognition 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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