The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 105
So at dusk he climbed over the wall into the witch’s garden, and, hastily gathering a handful of rampion leaves, he returned with them to his wife.
Who acts: house · What happens: climb, gather, return · To what, where: wall, handful
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | _ | 5 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 dusk | case |
| 3 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garden | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 witch | case |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gathering | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gathering | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 18 gathering | advmod |
| 18 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 climbed | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 handful | det |
| 20 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gathering | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 leaves | case |
| 22 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaves | compound |
| 23 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 handful | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 wife | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | house | the wall | dusk | into the witch's garden | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over wall=Initial_Location into garden=Destination | ||
| 2 | gather | gerund | house not said here | a handful of rampion leaves | hastily property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | house | with leaves = leaf; to house's wife result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result |
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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