The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 98

He ran and fetched a basket, and was just feeling the figs, to make sure which of them were ripe, when his brother Peppe called to him, ‘Stop!

Who acts: Ciccu, brother · What happens: run, fetch, feel, make, be, call · To what, where: basket, figs, Ciccu · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ciccu, brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetched	cc
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feeling	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feeling	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feeling	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 feeling	advmod
11	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 figs	det
13	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feeling	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
17	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 ripe	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ripe	obl
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ripe	cop
22	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sure	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 called	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	nsubj
27	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 brother	appos
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ripe	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Stop	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 Stop	punct
33	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 make	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	Ciccu				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	past	Ciccu not said here	a basket			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
3	feel	past · progressive	Ciccu not said here	the figs			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive				sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	is	past				of figs = fig; ripe property	tree rules
6	call	past	Ciccu's brother		Ciccu		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	stop	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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