The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 80
Then the maiden guided him to the castle, and kindled a fire, and brought him food.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: guide, kindle, bring · To what, where: Owen, castle, fire, food
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 (maiden), 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 guided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | nsubj |
| 4 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guided | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kindled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kindled | cc |
| 11 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guided | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kindled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guided | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past | the maiden | Owen | the castle | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination | ||
| 2 | kindle | past | the maiden not said here | a fire | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the maiden not said here | food | Owen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme |
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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