The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 31
Pearls and flowers were gathered up and taken to the treasury.
What happens: gather up, take · To what, where: Pearls
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 flowers | cc |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pearls | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gathered | aux:pass |
| 5 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 gathered | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taken | cc |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gathered | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 treasury | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasury | det |
| 11 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather up | past · passive | Pearls and flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | participle | to the treasury result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to treasury=Result |
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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