The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 37
So she hunted up leaves and moss to make a soft bed for the little Roe, and every morning and evening she went out and gathered roots, nuts, and berries for herself, and tender young grass for the fawn.
Who acts: girl · What happens: hunt up, make, go out, gather · To what, where: leaves, soft bed, roots
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hunted | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hunted | nsubj |
| 3 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 hunted | compound:prt |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moss | cc |
| 7 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hunted | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bed | amod |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Roe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Roe | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Roe | amod |
| 16 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 evening | cc |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 morning | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunted | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gathered | cc |
| 27 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 28 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 gathered | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 nuts | punct |
| 30 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 roots | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 berries | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 berries | cc |
| 33 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunted | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 herself | case |
| 35 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 berries | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 grass | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 grass | cc |
| 38 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 grass | amod |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 grass | amod |
| 40 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 fawn | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fawn | det |
| 43 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 grass | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt up | past | girl | leaves and moss | berries for girl obl; tender young grass for the fawn obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | girl not said here | a soft bed | for the little Roe | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bed=Material for roe=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go out | past | girl | morning | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | gather | past | girl not said here | roots and nuts | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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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