The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 51
And Thakane carried her answer back to Masilo.
Who acts: Thakane · What happens: carry back, answer · To what, where: answer, Masilo
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane), 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 | _ | 3 carried | cc |
| 2 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 answer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Masilo | case |
| 8 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | past | Thakane | Thakane's answer | Masilo | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Theme to masilo=Destination | |||
| 2 | answer | Thakane | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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