The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 46

She took him by the hand and let him into the palace, for she was the lady’s maid.

Who acts: thing · What happens: take, let, be · To what, where: John, palace

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 maid	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	20 maid	case
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 maid	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 maid	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lady	det
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 maid	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 lady	case
20	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	thing		John		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	let	infinitive	thing not said here	John		the palace		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	thing				for the lady's maid	tree rules

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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