The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 16
He took out the rushes which had somehow got mixed up with the hay, and plaited them quickly.
Who acts: maiden, rushes · What happens: take out, have, get, mix up, plait · To what, where: rushes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, rushes), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rushes | det |
| 5 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushes | acl:relcl |
| 8 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 got | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 mixed | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hay | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hay | det |
| 14 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mixed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plaited | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 plaited | cc |
| 17 | plaited | plait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 plaited | obj |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 plaited | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | maiden | the rushes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the rushes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | participle | the rushes not said here | somehow property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mix up | participle | the rushes not said here | with the hay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with hay=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | plait | past | maiden not said here | rushes = rush | quickly property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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