The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 7
So she went about with the cattle, and herded them in the woods and in the fields.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: go about, herd · To what, where: cattle, woods
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cattle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cattle | det |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 herded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 herded | cc |
| 10 | herded | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 herded | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 herded | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fields | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fields | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fields | det |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 woods | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | daughter | with the cattle; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cattle=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | herd | past | daughter not said here | cattle | the woods and the fields | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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