The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 147
‘Why, by having him taken to the tower with the dungeons, of course.’
Who acts: rogue · What happens: have, take · To what, where: rogue
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogue), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 having | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 having | obj |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 dungeons | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dungeons | det |
| 13 | dungeons | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 course | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 course | case |
| 16 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | rogue | of course | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | rogue not said here | to the tower result; with the dungeons | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tower=Result |
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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