The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 109
So the best figs were carefully packed in a basket, and Peppe set out with it to the castle.
Who acts: Peppe · What happens: pack, set out · To what, where: best figs, basket, castle
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppe), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 packed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 figs | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 figs | amod |
| 4 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 packed | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 packed | aux:pass |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 packed | advmod |
| 7 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 basket | det |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 packed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 13 | Peppe | Peppe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 packed | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past · passive | the best figs | a basket | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in basket=Destination | |||
| 2 | set out | past | Peppe | the castle | with basket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location |
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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