More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 103
They lifted her down and took her in, and sent the Bull to the field for the night.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: lift down, take, send · To what, where: lady, Bull, field
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (daughters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Bull | det |
| 13 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift down | past | daughters = daughter | lady | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | daughters = daughter not said here | lady | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | send | past | daughters = daughter not said here | the Bull | the field | night | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bull=Theme to field=Destination |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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