The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 2
He led her into a magnificent hall, where all the Court was assembled, and himself taking up the golden bowl full of water, he offered it to her that she might dip her pretty fingers into it.
Who acts: King, Court · What happens: lead, assemble, take up, offer, dip · To what, where: feast, magnificent hall, Court, golden bowl, bowl
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Court), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assembled | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 assembled | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Court | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Court | det |
| 12 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assembled | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assembled | aux:pass |
| 14 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hall | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taking | cc |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 taking | nsubj |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 led | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 taking | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bowl | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bowl | amod |
| 22 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bowl | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 offered | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offered | nsubj |
| 28 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offered | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offered | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 dip | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dip | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 dip | aux |
| 35 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 offered | advcl |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dip | obj |
| 37 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 35 dip | advmod |
| 38 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dip | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dip | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | King | feast | a magnificent hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | assemble | past · passive | all Court | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take up | gerund | King | the golden bowl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | past | King | bowl | feast | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Goal | |||
| 5 | dip | might | Court | feast | bowl | pretty property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme finger=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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