The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 160

Often they found a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a straw; they would sit down by the little fir-tree and say, ‘What a pretty little one this is!’

Who acts: companions · What happens: find, string, sit down, say, be · To what, where: whole basketful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	3 found	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basketful	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 basketful	amod
6	basketful	basketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 strawberries	cc
8	strung	string	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 strawberries	amod
9	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 basketful	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 straw	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 straw	det
12	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strawberries	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sit	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sit	aux
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sit	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	23 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tree	amod
21	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tree	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fir	punct
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sit	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 say	cc
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sit	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 What	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 What	punct
28	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 found	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 one	det
30	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	31 little	advmod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	amod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 What	nmod
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 one	nmod:unmarked
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 What	cop
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	companions = companion	a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a straw	often property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basketful=Topic
2	string	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	sit down	would	companions = companion		by the little fir tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	companions = companion not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present			a little one this nmod	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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