The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 88
Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda on the reindeer and away he sped.
Who acts: Finland woman, garden · What happens: lift, speed · To what, where: little Gerda, reindeer
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 (Finland woman, garden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Gerda | amod |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 reindeer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reindeer | det |
| 10 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sped | cc |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 sped | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sped | nsubj |
| 14 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the Finland woman | little Gerda | the reindeer | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme on reindeer=Destination | ||
| 2 | speed | past | garden | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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