The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 33
And the poor girl, with a heavy heart, took the body of the redbreast up to her husband.
Who acts: poor girl · What happens: take up · To what, where: body, husband
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl), 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 | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heart | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heart | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 redbreast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 redbreast | det |
| 16 | redbreast | redbreast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the poor girl | the body of the redbreast | girl's husband | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to husband=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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