The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 69
Then the countess hastened to the castle, and brought from it a flask full of precious ointment and gave it to one of her maidens.
Who acts: countess · What happens: hasten, bring, give · To what, where: castle, flask, one
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countess), 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 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 countess | det |
| 3 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hastened | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flask | det |
| 14 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flask | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ointment | case |
| 17 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ointment | amod |
| 18 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 gave | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 maidens | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 26 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the countess | the castle | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | a flask | castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flask=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | flask | one of countess's maidens | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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