The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 94
They took all the best horses and carts, and drove off to the forest.
Who acts: feet · What happens: take, drive off · To what, where: best horses, forest
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 horses | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 horses | amod |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carts | cc |
| 8 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 horses | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 drove | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | feet = foot | all best horses and carts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | drive off | past | feet = foot not said here | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |
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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