The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 23
This offer produced no more effect than the other, and Renelde did not go to the castle.
Who acts: offer, Renelde · What happens: produce, not go · To what, where: more effect, castle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (offer, Renelde), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 offer | det |
| 2 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | nsubj |
| 3 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 effect | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 effect | amod |
| 6 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 effect | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 12 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 go | advmod |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 produced | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | this offer | more effect | than the other | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | |||
| 2 | not go | past · do-support | Renelde | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=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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