The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 3

The children first made a sort of little terrace, and stamped it hard and firm, and then they began to make a snow woman.

Who acts: children · What happens: make, stamp, begin, sort · To what, where: sort, snow woman, little terrace

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 terrace	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 terrace	amod
9	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stamped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stamped	cc
12	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stamped	obj
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stamped	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 firm	cc
16	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hard	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 began	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 woman	compound
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the children	a sort of little terrace		first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Product
2	stamp	past	the children not said here	sort		hard property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
3	begin	past	children = child		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	a snow woman			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset woman=Product
5	sort			little terrace			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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