The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 12
But Ciccu uncovered the basket, and there lay a pile of beautiful ripe figs.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: uncover, lay · To what, where: basket, pile
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu), 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 | _ | 3 uncovered | cc |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncovered | nsubj |
| 3 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uncovered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 lay | expl |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uncovered | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pile | det |
| 11 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 figs | case |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 figs | amod |
| 14 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 figs | amod |
| 15 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pile | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | past | Ciccu | the basket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | Ciccu not said here | a pile of beautiful ripe figs | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Result |
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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