The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 18
Then they both gave her their blessing, and she picked up her baby and went her way.
Who acts: things, snake · What happens: give, pick up, go, bless · To what, where: blessing, snake, baby, way
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, snake), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 picked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 picked | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 picked | nsubj |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 baby | nmod:poss |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picked | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 picked | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | things = thing | things's blessing | snake | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blessing=Theme | ||
| 2 | pick up | past | snake | snake's baby | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | snake not said here | snake's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bless | things = thing | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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