The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 5
The Giantess went away, and soon returned with a little brown hen, which she placed on the table before her husband.
Who acts: Giantess, little brown hen · What happens: go away, return, place · To what, where: table
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giantess, little brown hen), 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 Giantess | det |
| 2 | Giantess | Giantess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 returned | advmod |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hen | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hen | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hen | amod |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hen | amod |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hen | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 table | det |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 husband | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the Giantess | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | participle | the Giantess not said here | with a little brown hen; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | a little brown hen | the table | before Giantess's husband | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on table=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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