The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 25
He lifted it out, carried it off, and took it with him to an inn where he meant to spend the night.
Who acts: Dullhead · What happens: lift out, carry off, take, mean, spend · To what, where: tree, inn
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 carried | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 inn | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 inn | det |
| 17 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 meant | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meant | nsubj |
| 20 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 inn | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 spend | mark |
| 22 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 meant | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spend | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift out | past | Dullhead | tree | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry off | past | Dullhead not said here | tree | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Dullhead not said here | tree | a inn | with Dullhead | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to inn=Destination | ||
| 4 | mean | past | Dullhead | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | spend not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dullhead not said here | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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