The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 131
So she seized him by the hand, and brought him into the hall, and said to the King:
Who acts: Water · What happens: seize, bring, say · To what, where: father, hall, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water), 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 seized | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Water | father | by the hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | Water not said here | father | the hall | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Water not said here | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |
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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