The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 50
She came smiling towards the youth, and held out her hand, and he took it and led her back to the palace.
Who acts: woman, skin · What happens: come, smile, hold out, take, lead back · To what, where: hand, woman, palace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, skin), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 youth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 held | compound:prt |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 led | cc |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 led | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | woman not said here | towards the youth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards youth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hold out | past | woman not said here | woman's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | skin | hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead back | past | skin not said here | woman | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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