The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 53
So they all set out together, and the man’s daughter took with her a casket in which she kept her gold, and a dog which was called Little Snow.
Who acts: stepmother, daughter · What happens: set out, take, keep, call · To what, where: casket, gold, dog · 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 (stepmother, daughter), 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 | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 casket | det |
| 17 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 kept | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 casket | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 gold | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dog | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dog | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dog | det |
| 27 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | parataxis |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 called | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | aux:pass |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 dog | acl:relcl |
| 31 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Snow | amod |
| 32 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 called | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | stepmother | all, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the man's daughter | a casket | with home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casket=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | past | daughter | home's gold | a casket | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 4 | call | past · passive | a dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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