The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 25

These little trees, which were chosen for their beauty, kept all their branches; they were put in carts and drawn out of the wood by horses.

Who acts: little trees · What happens: choose, keep, put, draw out · To what, where: little trees, branches, peace, carts, wood

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little trees), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 trees	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chosen	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 chosen	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chosen	aux:pass
7	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 trees	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 beauty	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 beauty	nmod:poss
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chosen	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 trees	punct
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 branches	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 branches	nmod:poss
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kept	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 kept	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 carts	case
21	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drawn	cc
23	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 put	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 wood	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drawn	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 horses	case
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drawn	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		this little trees		for peace's beauty	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for beauty=Beneficiary
2	keep	past	this little trees	peace's branches			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
3	put	past · passive		peace	carts		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cart=Destination
4	draw out	participle		the wood		by horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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 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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