The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 94
He led her into the hall, where she was highly honoured; but the witch’s daughter sucked the bones under the table, and crouching at the people’s feet she got an eye knocked out, poor thing!
Who acts: Prince, daughter, girl, eye · What happens: lead, honour, suck, crouch, get, knock out · To what, where: girl, hall, bones, table, feet, eye
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 (Prince, daughter, girl, eye), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honoured | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 honoured | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 honoured | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 honoured | aux:pass |
| 11 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 12 honoured | advmod |
| 12 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hall | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sucked | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sucked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sucked | nsubj |
| 19 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bones | det |
| 21 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sucked | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 table | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 table | det |
| 24 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sucked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 got | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 got | cc |
| 27 | crouching | crouch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 got | csubj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 feet | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 people | case |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 crouching | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 got | nsubj |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sucked | conj |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 eye | det |
| 36 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | obj |
| 37 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 got | xcomp |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 knocked | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thing | punct |
| 40 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 41 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 got | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Prince | girl | the hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | honour | past · passive | girl | highly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suck | past | the witch's daughter | the bones | the table | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bone=Source | |||
| 4 | crouch | gerund | the people's feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||||
| 5 | get | past | girl | a eye | poor thing obl | tree rules | |||
| 6 | knock out | participle | a eye not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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