The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 38
And he fed from her hand, and played round her and seemed quite happy.
Who acts: Brother · What happens: feed, play, seem · To what, where: hand
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fed | nsubj |
| 3 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 played | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 played | cc |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fed | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 played | conj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 happy | advmod |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | Brother | girl's hand | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | past | Brother not said here | round girl | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Brother not said here | happy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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