The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 184
So she went out to the stream that flowed through the garden, and had a pail full of little gudgeons brought to her.
Who acts: wife, stream, pail · What happens: go out, flow, have, bring · To what, where: garden, wife
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, stream, pail), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 flowed | nsubj |
| 9 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stream | acl:relcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flowed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pail | det |
| 17 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pail | amod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gudgeons | case |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gudgeons | amod |
| 21 | gudgeons | gudgeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | wife | to the stream; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the stream | the garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | a pail | wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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