The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 16
Then she blessed her sons and they set out into the wood.
Who acts: Heaven, sons · What happens: bless, set out · To what, where: sons, wood
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 (Heaven, sons), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 blessed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | nsubj |
| 3 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blessed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | Heaven | Heaven's sons | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 2 | set out | past | sons = son | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location |
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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