The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 36
She carried her point, and the faithful Falada was doomed to die.
Who acts: bride · What happens: carry, doom, die, point · To what, where: point, faithful Falada
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 point | nmod:poss |
| 4 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doomed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 doomed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Falada | det |
| 8 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Falada | amod |
| 9 | Falada | Falada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 doomed | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 doomed | aux:pass |
| 11 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 carried | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 doomed | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | bride | bride's point | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 2 | doom | past · passive | the faithful Falada | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | point | bride | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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