The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 94
‘Then carry me into the other world,’ he replied.
Who acts: you, arose · What happens: carry, reply · To what, where: me, other 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 (you, arose), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 carry | advmod |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | me | the other world | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | arose | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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