The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 81
And, to restore heart and legs to the child, she made her eat a good piece of her cake, and drink a good draught of wine, after which she took her by the hand and led her back to the house.
Who acts: Grandmother, Blanchette · What happens: restore, make, eat, drink, take, lead back · To what, where: heart, child, Blanchette, good piece, good draught, Grandmother
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, Blanchette), 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 restore | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 restore | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 restore | mark |
| 4 | restore | restore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restore | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 legs | cc |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heart | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 child | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restore | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 restore | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piece | amod |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cake | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cake | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drink | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drink | cc |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 restore | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 draught | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 draught | amod |
| 27 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drink | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wine | case |
| 29 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 draught | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 took | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drink | parataxis |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | obj |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hand | det |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 led | cc |
| 40 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 took | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 led | obj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 40 led | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 house | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 house | det |
| 45 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 led | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 restore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | to-infinitive | heart and legs | the child | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to child=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Grandmother | Blanchette | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | Blanchette not said here | a good piece of Grandmother's cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | a good draught of wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient | |||||
| 5 | take | past | Grandmother | Blanchette | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 6 | lead back | past | Grandmother not said here | Grandmother | the house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination |
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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