The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 35
When she had done this she led the Roe farther and farther, right into the depths of the forest.
Who acts: girl · What happens: do, lead · To what, where: this, Roe, depths
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 (girl), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 led | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Roe | det |
| 9 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obj |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 led | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 farther | cc |
| 12 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 farther | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 depths | punct |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 depths | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 depths | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 depths | det |
| 17 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 led | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 depths | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | girl | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | girl | the Roe | the depths of the forest | far property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roe=Theme into depth=Destination |
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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