The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 14
He jumped up, took sister by the hand, and they set off to hunt for the brook.
Who acts: Brother, Heaven · What happens: jump up, take, set off, hunt · To what, where: sister
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 (Brother, Heaven), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hunt | mark |
| 16 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 brook | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brook | det |
| 19 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Brother not said here | sister | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination | |||
| 3 | set off | past | Heaven | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hunt | to-infinitive | Heaven not said here | for the brook | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brook=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 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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