The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 74
And then they all went to the place from which they had to be hoisted into the upper world.
Who acts: things · What happens: go, have, hoist · To what, where: place, upper world
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 (things), 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 | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hoisted | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 15 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 had | xcomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hoisted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | things = thing | the place | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | things = thing | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hoist | to-infinitive · passive | things = thing not said here | the upper world | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into world=Destination |
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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