The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 47
This led the bride to her wedding dress, and she gave a little scream.
Who acts: This, bride · What happens: lead, give · To what, where: bride, wedding dress, little scream
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, bride), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dress | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dress | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dress | compound |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scream | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scream | amod |
| 15 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | This | the bride | bride's wedding dress | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to dress=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | past | bride | a little scream | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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