The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 25
The Fairy went and brought his mother to him, with the hen and the harp.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: go, bring · To what, where: mother, Jack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hen | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hen | det |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 harp | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 harp | det |
| 16 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hen | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Fairy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | the Fairy not said here | Jack's mother | Jack | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme to he=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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