The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 122

The Huntsman did as he was told and led Snowdrop out into the wood, but as he was in the act of drawing out his knife to slay her, she began to cry, and said:

Who acts: Huntsman, act, SNOWDROP · What happens: do, tell, lead out, be, draw out, slay · To what, where: huntsman, Snowdrop, wood, knife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huntsman, act, SNOWDROP), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Huntsman	det
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 led	cc
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
10	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 led	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	9 led	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 act	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 act	cc
17	as	as	ADP	_	22 act	case
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 act	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 act	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 act	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 act	det
22	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 drawing	mark
24	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 act	acl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 drawing	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knife	nmod:poss
27	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drawing	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 slay	mark
29	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drawing	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slay	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cry	mark
35	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Huntsman				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		huntsman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	lead out	past	the Huntsman not said here	Snowdrop	the wood	out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Theme into wood=Destination
4	is	past	huntsman			as the act	tree rules
5	draw out	gerund	the act not said here	huntsman's knife			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
6	slay	to-infinitive	the act not said here	SNOWDROP			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	begin	past	SNOWDROP				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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