The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 16
The little robber-girl took Gerda to a corner of the robbers’ camp where she slept.
Who acts: little robber girl, girl · What happens: take, sleep · To what, where: Gerda, corner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little robber girl, girl), 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 | 5 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 robber | punct |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 camp | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 robbers | det |
| 13 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 camp | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 robbers | case |
| 15 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | nmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 slept | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slept | nsubj |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 camp | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the little robber girl | Gerda | a corner of the robbers's camp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to corner=Destination | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | girl | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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