The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 170
He carried her home to his wife, and the good woman was sorry for her, and brought her up with her own sons.
Who acts: father, good woman · What happens: carry, be, bring up · To what, where: home, wife, woman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, good woman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 home | nmod:poss |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sorry | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sorry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sorry | cop |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 carried | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sorry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 brought | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 sons | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sons | amod |
| 25 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | father | fountain's home | father's wife | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to wife=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the good woman | for fountain; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring up | past | father not said here | woman | with woman's own sons | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with son=Instrument |
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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