The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 19
So taking her pitcher, she ran off in the clear moonlight to the fountain, which was at some distance.
Who acts: Felicia, fountain · What happens: take, run off, be · To what, where: pitcher, clear moonlight
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, fountain), 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 | _ | 2 taking | advmod |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ran | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 taking | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 ran | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moonlight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moonlight | det |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moonlight | amod |
| 12 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fountain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fountain | det |
| 15 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 distance | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 distance | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 distance | cop |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 distance | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 distance | det |
| 21 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fountain | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Felicia not said here | Felicia's pitcher | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run off | past | Felicia | the clear moonlight | to the fountain and some distance result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fountain=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past | the fountain and some distance | at some distance | tree rules |
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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