The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 6
Then the mermaid carried him to the very top.
Who acts: mermaid · What happens: carry · To what, where: prince, top
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 carried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mermaid | det |
| 3 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | 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 carried | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 top | advmod |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the mermaid | prince | the top | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to top=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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