The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 88
So saying they drew from their travelling bag the picture of Rosette.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: say, draw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saying | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bag | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bag | nmod:poss |
| 7 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bag | compound |
| 8 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bag | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rosette | case |
| 12 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 picture | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | draw | past | brothers = brother | from brothers's travelling bag | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from bag=Co-Patient |
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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