The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 40

She joyfully picked enough to fill her basket, thanked the little men for their kindness, shook hands with them, and ran home to bring her stepmother what she had asked for.

Who acts: first · What happens: pick, fill, thank, shake, run, bring · To what, where: basket, little men, hands, stepmother

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (first), 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	3 picked	nsubj
2	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	3 picked	advmod
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 picked	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fill	mark
6	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 picked	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 basket	nmod:poss
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fill	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thanked	punct
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thanked	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 kindness	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 kindness	nmod:poss
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shook	punct
18	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shook	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shook	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ran	cc
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 ran	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bring	mark
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ran	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stepmother	nmod:poss
29	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 stepmother	appos
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 asked	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 asked	aux
33	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 what	acl:relcl
34	for	for	ADP	_	33 asked	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pick	past	first			enough, joyfully property	tree rules
2	fill	to-infinitive	first not said here	first's basket			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
3	thank speech: thank	past	first not said here		the little men	for strawberries's kindness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme for kindness=Attribute
4	shake	past	first not said here	hands		with strawberries = strawberry	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with they=Co-Patient
5	run	past	first not said here			home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring	to-infinitive	first not said here		first's stepmother		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument stepmother=Destination
7	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	first				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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