The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 60
He took with him only a staff, a strong sack, and a little box which his daughter Lucia had given him.
Who acts: Peter, daughter · What happens: take, give · To what, where: staff, little box, Peter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Peter, daughter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 staff | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 staff | det |
| 7 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sack | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sack | amod |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staff | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 box | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 box | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 box | amod |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | parataxis |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 given | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | nsubj |
| 20 | Lucia | Lucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | appos |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 box | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | iobj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Peter | a staff and a strong sack | with thought | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | Peter's daughter | a little box | Peter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=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 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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