The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 87
He put down his mould and his basket on the ground, took up a handful of clay, and made a doll as large as life.
Who acts: man · What happens: put down, take up, make · To what, where: mould, handful, doll
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mould | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 basket | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 basket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mould | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 basket | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 handful | det |
| 16 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 clay | case |
| 18 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 handful | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 doll | det |
| 23 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 large | advmod |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 made | xcomp |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 large | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | man | man's mould and man's basket on the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mould=Goal | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | a handful of clay | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | a doll | large property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doll=Product |
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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