The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 124
The daughter was led into the forest, where the wild beasts tore her to pieces, and the old witch was burnt at the stake.
Who acts: wild beasts · What happens: lead, tore, burnt · To what, where: daughter, forest, old witch, stake
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beasts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tore | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 tore | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beasts | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beasts | amod |
| 12 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tore | nsubj |
| 13 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forest | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tore | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tore | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 burnt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 burnt | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 witch | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 witch | amod |
| 21 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 burnt | aux:pass |
| 23 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 led | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 stake | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stake | det |
| 26 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the daughter | the forest | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tore | past | the wild beasts | daughter | to pieces | tree rules | |||
| 3 | burnt | past · passive | the old witch | the stake | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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