The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 173
But the Fairy bade her take courage.
Who acts: Fairy bade · What happens: take · To what, where: courage
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy bade), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 take | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bade | amod |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bade | punct |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | the Fairy bade | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
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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