The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 90

Her daughter was at hand, too, and between them they carried the Queen, who was still very weak, into the bath-room and laid her in the bath; then they locked the door and ran away.

Who acts: daughter, adventures, Queen · What happens: be, carry, lay, lock, run away · To what, where: hand, Queen, bath room, bath, door

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 (daughter, adventures, Queen), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hand	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 hand	case
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 too	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 hand	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carried	cc
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	nsubj
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Queen	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weak	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 weak	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 weak	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	21 weak	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 weak	advmod
21	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Queen	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 room	punct
23	into	into	ADP	_	27 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
25	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 room	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 bath	punct
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laid	cc
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 bath	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bath	det
33	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laid	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 locked	punct
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 locked	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 locked	nsubj
37	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 door	det
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 locked	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ran	cc
41	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 locked	conj
42	away	away	ADV	_	41 ran	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	water's daughter		hand			tree rules
2	carry	past	adventures = adventure	the Queen	the bath room		between adventures = adventure	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
3	is	past	the Queen			still	weak property	tree rules
4	lay	past	adventures = adventure not said here	Queen	the bath			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bath=Destination
5	lock	past	adventures = adventure	the door		then		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
6	run away	past	adventures = adventure not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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