The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 283
She drew out the purse and shook out as many little heaps of fifty crowns as there were plums in the basket.
Who acts: curiosity, plums · What happens: draw out, shake out, be · To what, where: purse
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 (curiosity, plums), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 drew | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 purse | det |
| 5 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shook | cc |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 shook | compound:prt |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 heaps | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heaps | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heaps | amod |
| 12 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 crowns | case |
| 14 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 crowns | nummod |
| 15 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heaps | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 were | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | conj |
| 19 | plums | plum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 were | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 basket | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 basket | det |
| 22 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plums | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | curiosity | the purse | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake out | past | curiosity not said here | as many little heaps of fifty crowns | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | plums in the basket | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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