The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 59
The King’s son carried my daughter about, but the poor thing fell and broke her arm.’
Who acts: son, poor thing · What happens: carry, fall, break · To what, where: daughter, arm
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 (son, poor thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fell | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arm | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the King's son | my daughter | about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the poor thing | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | past | the poor thing not said here | thing's arm | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |
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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