The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 3

So the mermaid took him on her shoulders and bore him up midway to the surface.

Who acts: mermaid · What happens: take, bear up · To what, where: youth, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mermaid), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mermaid	det
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulders	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulders	nmod:poss
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bore	cc
10	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bore	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 bore	compound:prt
13	midway	midway	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bore	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 surface	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 surface	det
16	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bore	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the mermaid	youth		mermaid's shoulders			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shoulder=Destination
2	bear up	past	the mermaid not said here	youth				to the surface; midway obl:unmarked	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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