The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 263

So he plaited a basket out of the long willows, and placed in it carefully both sorts of plums.

Who acts: mischief · What happens: plait, place, sort · To what, where: basket, long willows, sorts, plums

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mischief), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 plaited	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 plaited	nsubj
3	plaited	plait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 basket	det
5	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plaited	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 willows	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 willows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 willows	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 willows	amod
10	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plaited	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 placed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 placed	cc
13	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 plaited	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 placed	obl
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	18 sorts	advmod
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sorts	det
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 placed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 plums	case
20	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sorts	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plaited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	plait	past	mischief	a basket	the long willows	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
2	place	participle	mischief not said here	both sorts of plums	basket	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination
3	sort			plums		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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