The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 121
So the youth did this—he killed all the twelve foals, and then went back again.
Who acts: youth · What happens: do, kill, go back · To what, where: this, twelve foals
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth), 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 | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 foals | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foals | det |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 foals | nummod |
| 12 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 killed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 went | advmod |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the youth | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | youth | all twelve foals | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | youth not said here | then; again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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