The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 45

The robber-girl lifted little Gerda up, and had the foresight to tie her on firmly, and even gave her a little pillow for a saddle.

Who acts: robber girl, foresight · What happens: lift, have, tie, give · To what, where: little Gerda, foresight, girl, little pillow

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 (robber girl, foresight), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
2	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 robber	punct
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	nsubj
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Gerda	amod
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 Gerda	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 foresight	det
13	foresight	foresight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tie	mark
15	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tie	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 firmly	case
18	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	15 tie	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 gave	advmod
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pillow	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pillow	amod
26	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 saddle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 saddle	det
29	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the robber girl	little Gerda			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
2	have	past	the robber girl not said here	the foresight			tree rules
3	tie	to-infinitive	the foresight not said here	girl			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient on firmly=Co-Patient
4	give	past	the robber girl not said here	a little pillow	girl	for a saddle	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pillow=Theme for saddle=Asset

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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