The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 168
So the widow took the child in her arms, and carried it to the marsh in the forest.
Who acts: widow · What happens: take, carry · To what, where: child, arms, arm, forest
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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 | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 marsh | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marsh | det |
| 16 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the widow | the child | widow's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the widow not said here | arm | the forest | to the marsh | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to marsh=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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