The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 5
And he took it home to his palace and had it put in a pretty little house, with all sorts of nice things to eat.
Who acts: bunny, protection · What happens: take, have, put, eat, sort · To what, where: protection, palace, pretty little house, nice things
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bunny, protection), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorts | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sorts | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 sorts | det |
| 21 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 things | case |
| 23 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sorts | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 things | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | bunny | protection | bunny's palace | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 2 | have | past | bunny not said here | protection | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | protection not said here | a pretty little house | with all sorts of nice things | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in house=Destination | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | protection not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sort | nice things | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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