The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 27
So away she went, but grumbling all the way, taking with her the best silver tankard in the house.
Who acts: mother · What happens: go, grumble, take · To what, where: way, best silver tankard, house
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grumbling | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 grumbling | cc |
| 7 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 way | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grumbling | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 grumbling | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tankard | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 tankard | amod |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tankard | compound |
| 18 | tankard | tankard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | mother | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | gerund | mother not said here | all way | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | mother not said here | the best silver tankard | the house | with mother | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tankard=Value in house=Location |
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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