The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 42
And he fetched his youngest daughter, who seemed quite pleased at the proposed match, and gave the youth her hand.
Who acts: man, youngest daughter · What happens: fetch, seem, propose, give · To what, where: youngest daughter, youth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, youngest 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fetched | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fetched | nsubj |
| 3 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fetched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 match | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 match | det |
| 14 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 match | amod |
| 15 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleased | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fetched | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | man | man's youngest daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | man's youngest daughter | pleased property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | man not said here | the youth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient hand=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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