The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 17
Then he left the tree and dragged the animal to his mother’s house.
Who acts: Antoine · What happens: leave, drag · To what, where: tree, animal, house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antoine), 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 | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dragged | cc |
| 7 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animal | det |
| 9 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Antoine | the tree | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | drag | past | Antoine not said here | the animal | Antoine's mother's house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to house=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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/17/