The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 92
She ran to the birch tree, and by its magic power her task was accomplished; and then she rode away to the palace as before.
Who acts: girl, magic power · What happens: run, accomplish, ride away, task · To what, where: task, palace
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, magic power), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 accomplished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 accomplished | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 11 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 power | compound |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accomplished | obl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 task | nmod:poss |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 16 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rode | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 rode | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 rode | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rode | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 before | case |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 rode | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | girl | to the birch tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | accomplish | past · passive | tree's magic power | girl's task | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ride away | past | girl | the palace | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | task | girl | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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