The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 18

But when the maiden started off with the basket on her arm, the wood pigeons had eaten up the peas, and she did not know which way to go.

Who acts: maiden, wood pigeons · What happens: start off, eat up, not know, go · To what, where: peas, way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, wood pigeons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 started	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 started	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 started	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 basket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 basket	det
9	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 arm	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arm	nmod:poss
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 basket	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eaten	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pigeons	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pigeons	compound
16	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eaten	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	aux
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 started	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 eaten	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 peas	det
21	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eaten	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eaten	conj
28	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 know	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 way	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start off	past	the maiden		with the basket on maiden's arm	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with basket=Subeventuality
2	eat up	past · perfect	the wood pigeons	the peas		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	maiden	which way		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
4	go	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	which way not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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