The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 19
And, taking her arm, he led her up the steps.
Who acts: Hábogi · What happens: take, lead up · To what, where: arm, heart
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hábogi), 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 | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 led | csubj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 led | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steps | det |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 led | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | heart's arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead up | past | Hábogi | heart | tree rules |
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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