More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 110
So she told him how she had been saved, and he took her home to his castle again.
Who acts: daughter, lad · What happens: tell, save, take · To what, where: lad, daughter, home, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, lad), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saved | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saved | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saved | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saved | aux:pass |
| 9 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 castle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | daughter | lad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | save | past · perfect · passive | daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | lad | daughter's home | lad's castle | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to castle=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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