The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 42
Then she went back to the birch tree and laid the branch upon the grave.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go back, lay · To what, where: branch, grave
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 (girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branch | det |
| 12 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 grave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grave | det |
| 15 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | girl | then | to the birch tree result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result | |||
| 2 | lay | past | girl not said here | the branch | the grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme upon grave=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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