The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 72
Taking the branch he touched her lightly with it, saying:
Who acts: prince, Taking · What happens: take, touch, say · To what, where: branch, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (prince, Taking), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 saying | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branch | det |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 branch | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | obj |
| 7 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 1 Taking | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the branch | with Branch; lightly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | prince | lady | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Taking | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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