The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 38
Then he stamped off, taking the Fairy with him, and leaving the poor Queen in tears.
Who acts: battle · What happens: stamp off, take, leave · To what, where: Fairy, poor Queen, tears
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 (battle), 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 | 3 stamped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stamped | nsubj |
| 3 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 stamped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taking | punct |
| 6 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stamped | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taking | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaving | cc |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taking | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Queen | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Queen | amod |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tears | case |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp off | past | battle | then | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | battle not said here | the Fairy | with battle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fairy=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | battle not said here | the poor Queen | tears | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in tear=Location |
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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