The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 93

When this was done he placed the figure in the basket, promising that the next day they should all see what a beautiful piece of work he had finished.

Who acts: man, baskets · What happens: do, place, promise, see, finish · To what, where: this, figure, basket, work

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, baskets), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 placed	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 placed	nsubj
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 figure	det
8	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 basket	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 basket	det
11	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 figure	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promising	punct
13	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 placed	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 see	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl:unmarked
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promising	advcl
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 see	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 piece	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 piece	amod
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 what	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 work	case
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 finished	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 finished	aux
30	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 work	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	place	past	man	the figure	the basket			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Theme in basket=Destination
3	promise speech: promise	gerund	man not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see	should	baskets = basket			day	all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	finish	past · perfect	man	work not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector work=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 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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