The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 57
And running up to where the fisher’s son was standing, she took him by the hand, saying,
Who acts: daughter, son · What happens: run up, stand, take, say · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, son), 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 | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 running | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 standing | mark |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 standing | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fisher | det |
| 7 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 fisher | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | aux |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 running | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 running | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | gerund | daughter not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the fisher's son | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | daughter | son | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | daughter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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