The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 102
And the shoemaker took it and told the girl he must carry the shoes for the wedding up to the castle.
Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: take, tell, carry up · To what, where: need, girl, shoes, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker), 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 | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoemaker | det |
| 3 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoes | det |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carry | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 wedding | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wedding | det |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 carry | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the shoemaker | need | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the shoemaker not said here | the girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry up | must | shoemaker | the shoes | the castle | for the wedding | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme to castle=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.
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