The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 59
So, taking her son on her arm, and hanging a little earthen pot for cooking round her neck, she left her house with its great peacock fans and slaves and seats of ivory, and plunged into the forest.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, hang, leave, plunge · To what, where: son, arm, little earthen pot, house, forest
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 23 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 left | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hanging | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hanging | cc |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 taking | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pot | amod |
| 14 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pot | amod |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 cooking | case |
| 17 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 left | nsubj |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 fans | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 fans | nmod:poss |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fans | amod |
| 29 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fans | compound |
| 30 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 left | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 slaves | cc |
| 32 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fans | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 seats | cc |
| 34 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fans | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ivory | case |
| 36 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seats | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 plunged | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 plunged | cc |
| 39 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 left | conj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 forest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 forest | det |
| 42 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 plunged | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | girl not said here | girl's son | girl's arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme on arm=Destination | |||
| 2 | hang | gerund | girl not said here | a little earthen pot | for cooking; round girl's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave | past | girl | girl's house | with house's great peacock fans and slaves and seats of ivory | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Recipient with fan=Theme | |||
| 4 | plunge | participle | girl not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location |
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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