The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 29
So he brought her a gown that was as bright as the copper wood, and she got a horse and saddle too from him.
Who acts: man, gown, daughter · What happens: bring, be, get · To what, where: gown, daughter, horse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (man, gown, 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 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gown | det |
| 6 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bright | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bright | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 bright | advmod |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gown | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 13 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | compound |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bright | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saddle | cc |
| 22 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 horse | conj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | man | a gown | daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination gown=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | a gown | as the copper wood; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | daughter | a horse and saddle | from man | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from he=Source |
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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