The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 173
and immediately the reindeer left the herd and came to the child, and tended it as on the day before.
Who acts: reindeer · What happens: leave, come, tend · To what, where: herd
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 (reindeer), 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 left | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reindeer | det |
| 4 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herd | det |
| 7 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 child | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tended | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tended | cc |
| 15 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tended | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 tended | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tended | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 tended | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the reindeer | the herd | immediately property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the reindeer not said here | to the child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tend | past | the reindeer not said here | herd | day | before property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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