The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 81
Then he climbed up the tree himself, lifted her down, put her on his horse and bore her home to his palace.
Who acts: attention · What happens: climb up, lift down, put, bear · To what, where: tree, girl, home
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 (attention), 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 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lifted | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 lifted | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lifted | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bore | cc |
| 19 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bore | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bore | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | attention | the tree | then | attention obl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||
| 2 | lift down | past | attention not said here | girl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | attention not said here | girl | on attention's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 4 | bear | past | attention not said here | girl's home | to attention's palace | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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