The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 39
A short time after this the mother sent the children into the wood to collect fagots.
Who acts: mother · What happens: send, collect · To what, where: children, wood, fagots
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 collect | mark |
| 15 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 16 | fagots | fagot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 collect | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the mother | the children | the wood | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||
| 2 | collect | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | fagots | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fagot=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 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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