The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 181
Then the good Fairy ran to tell the Queen, and they went together to the black dungeon where Delicia was imprisoned.
Who acts: good Fairy, King · What happens: run, tell, go together, imprison · To what, where: Queen, black dungeon, Delicia · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (good Fairy, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fairy | amod |
| 4 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 dungeon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dungeon | det |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dungeon | amod |
| 18 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 imprisoned | advmod |
| 20 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 22 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dungeon | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the good Fairy | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the good Fairy not said here | the Queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go together | past | King | the black dungeon | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dungeon=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | imprison | past · passive | Delicia | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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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