The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 71
Then the old man took a bag and filled it with food and money, and throwing it over his shoulders, bade his wife farewell.
Who acts: old man · What happens: take, fill, throw over · To what, where: bag
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 (old man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 filled | cc |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 money | cc |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 throwing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 throwing | cc |
| 17 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 throwing | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 throwing | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 throwing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bade | punct |
| 23 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shoulders | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obl |
| 26 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 17 throwing | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the old man | a bag | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | past | the old man not said here | bag | with food and money | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with food=Instrument | |||
| 3 | throw over | gerund | the old man not said here | bag | child's wife obl; farewell property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination shoulder=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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