The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 108
Heaven has sent us down this thing.’
Who acts: Heaven · What happens: send down · To what, where: thing, us
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven), 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 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | iobj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send down | present · perfect | Heaven | this thing | us | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination thing=Theme |
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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