The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 18
But he did not forget to take off the strap with which he had led the animal, and to carry it home.
Who acts: boy · What happens: not forget, take off, lead, carry · To what, where: strap, animal
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 forget | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 forget | advmod |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forget | xcomp |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 strap | det |
| 10 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 led | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | aux |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 strap | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 animal | det |
| 17 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carry | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carry | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forget | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 carry | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · do-support | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take off | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the strap | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · perfect | boy | the animal | with the strap | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | boy not said here | strap | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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