The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 40
So she took the twelve shirts and went on straight into the middle of the big wood.
Who acts: mother · What happens: take, go on · To what, where: twelve shirts, middle
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 (mother), 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 | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shirts | det |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 shirts | nummod |
| 6 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 middle | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | amod |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | the twelve shirts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | mother not said here | the middle of the big wood | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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