The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 41
When she was ready she said to the ball: “Go back the way you came, and lead me to my grandson.”
Who acts: wife, ball · What happens: be, say, go back, come, lead · To what, where: ball, way, wife, grandson · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, ball), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ball | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 12 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 Go | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Go | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lead | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lead | cc |
| 20 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lead | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 grandson | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 24 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lead | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | the ball | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ball=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go back in a quote | infinitive | the way | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | the ball = ball | the way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead in a quote | infinitive | wife | my grandson | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to grandson=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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