The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 22
So the bear carried his wife’s body to the storehouse, while he himself went back to the cave to cook some pap for the mourner.
Who acts: bear · What happens: carry, go back, cook · To what, where: body, storehouse, pap
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 storehouse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 storehouse | det |
| 11 | storehouse | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 went | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 14 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cook | mark |
| 22 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 pap | det |
| 24 | pap | pap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cook | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 mourner | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mourner | det |
| 27 | mourner | mourner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pap | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the bear | bear's wife's body | the storehouse | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to storehouse=Destination | |||
| 2 | go back | past | bear | to the cave result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result | ||||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | bear not said here | some pap | for the mourner | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pap=Product for mourner=Beneficiary |
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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