The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 87
And then she sent her back to be locked into the garret once more.
Who acts: skin · What happens: send, lock · To what, where: back, garret
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 locked | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 locked | aux:pass |
| 9 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 garret | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garret | det |
| 12 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 locked | obl |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 locked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | skin | skin's back | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 2 | lock | to-infinitive · passive | skin not said here | the garret | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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