The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 80

The King’s son carried my daughter from one room to another; he let her fall, ‘tis true, and my child’s foot was broken.’

Who acts: son, daughter · What happens: carry, let, fall, break · To what, where: daughter, one room, foot

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, daughter), 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	from	from	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 room	nummod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 room	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
20	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 true	nsubj
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fall	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broken	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 broken	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foot	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 child	case
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broken	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 broken	aux:pass
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 let	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry	past	the King's son	my daughter	one room to another	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme from room=Initial_Location
2	let	past	son	daughter		tree rules
3	fall	infinitive	daughter not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	break	past · passive		my child's foot		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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