The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 47
And the turtle, followed by his relations, carried her off to his own hut.
Who acts: turtle · What happens: follow, carry off · To what, where: turtle, use, own hut
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtle), 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 | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 turtle | det |
| 3 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turtle | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 relations | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 relations | nmod:poss |
| 8 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turtle | punct |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hut | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hut | amod |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | the turtle not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry off | past | the turtle | use | turtle's own hut | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to hut=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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