The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 103
Have the fairies taken her, or has some wild beast carried her off?”
Who acts: you, wild beast · What happens: have, take, carry off · To what, where: fairies, sign
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wild beast), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairies | det |
| 3 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fairies | acl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 has | cc |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 beast | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beast | amod |
| 11 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 carried | compound:prt |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | the fairies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | the fairies not said here | sign | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | carry off | past | some wild beast | sign | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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