The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 41
Then the boy ran back and picked up the kid, and took it to the Black Gallows Bird.
Who acts: boy · What happens: run back, pick up, take · To what, where: kid, Gallows Bird
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 picked | cc |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picked | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kid | det |
| 10 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Bird | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bird | det |
| 17 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Gallows | amod |
| 18 | Gallows | Gallows | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Bird | compound |
| 19 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | the boy | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | the boy not said here | the kid | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the boy not said here | kid | the Gallows Bird | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bird=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/pg3454/2/41/