The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 26
So she fought and struggled to get away from her husband, and to go where the voice summoned.
Who acts: wife, voice · What happens: fight, struggle, get away, go, summon
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, voice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 struggled | cc |
| 5 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fought | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 struggled | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 away | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fought | conj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 summoned | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 summoned | nsubj |
| 19 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 go | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | wife | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | struggle | past | wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get away | to-infinitive | wife not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | summon | participle | the voice | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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