The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 39
And with that he caught the youngest girl by the hand to try and draw her away.
Who acts: other two · What happens: catch, try, draw away · To what, where: youngest girl, landlord
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 (other two), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 caught | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 draw | cc |
| 15 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 draw | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 draw | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | other two = two | the youngest girl | by the hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | other two = two not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | draw away | infinitive | other two = two not said here | landlord | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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