The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 46
So she took the candle, and hid it in her breast, and when evening drew near the White Bear came to fetch her away.
Who acts: mother · What happens: take, hide, draw, come, fetch away · To what, where: candle, drop, breast, White Bear, mother
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 candle | det |
| 5 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hid | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 breast | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 drew | advmod |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | advcl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 Bear | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bear | det |
| 20 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Bear | amod |
| 21 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obl |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fetch | mark |
| 24 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fetch | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 fetch | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | the candle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | mother not said here | drop | mother's breast | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in breast=Location | |||
| 3 | draw | past | the White Bear | evening | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | mother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fetch away | to-infinitive | mother not said here | mother | away property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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