The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 94
And lifting the remaining leaves up, he laid them on the dish and brought them to the maiden.
Who acts: lifting, Hunter · What happens: lift, leave up, lay, bring · To what, where: remaining, ground, dish, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lifting, Hunter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leaves | cc |
| 2 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 leaves | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 remaining | det |
| 4 | remaining | remaining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifting | obj |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | nsubj |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaves | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 dish | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dish | det |
| 13 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 maiden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | gerund | the remaining | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remaining=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave up | present | lifting | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | Hunter | ground | the dish | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on dish=Destination | |||
| 4 | bring | past | Hunter not said here | ground | the maiden | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to maiden=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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