The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 73
The damsel took the flask and did her mistress’ bidding.
Who acts: damsel · What happens: take, do · To what, where: flask, mistress
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 (damsel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 damsel | det |
| 2 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flask | det |
| 5 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mistress | punct |
| 11 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mistress | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the damsel | the flask | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the damsel not said here | damsel's mistress and bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Eventuality |
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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