The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 62
She carried home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked for an essence only given to those just about to die.
Who acts: Morgiana · What happens: carry, return, ask, give, die · To what, where: lozenges, next day weeping, essence
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morgiana), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lozenges | det |
| 5 | lozenges | lozenge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weeping | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weeping | compound |
| 10 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 essence | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 essence | det |
| 16 | essence | essence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 given | advmod |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 essence | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 those | case |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 given | obl |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 about | advmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 die | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Morgiana | the lozenges | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lozenge=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | Morgiana not said here | next day weeping | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weeping=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Morgiana not said here | for a essence | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | a essence not said here | a essence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to that=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | a essence not said here | about property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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