More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 99
They lifted her off his back, and took her in, and sent him away to a park for the night.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: lift off, take, send away · To what, where: long, Bull
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 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 sent | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 park | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 park | det |
| 19 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift off | past | daughters = daughter | long | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme back=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past | daughters = daughter not said here | long | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | send away | past | daughters = daughter not said here | Bull | night | to a park; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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