The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 106
So Cinderlad pulled out the consecrated bread and the flask of wine, and showed them to the King.
Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: pull out, consecrate, show · To what, where: consecrated bread, bread, King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad), 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 | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bread | det |
| 6 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bread | amod |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flask | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flask | det |
| 10 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bread | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wine | case |
| 12 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flask | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | past | Cinderlad | the consecrated bread and the flask of wine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consecrate | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | Cinderlad not said here | bread | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to king=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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