The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 86
Had a fierce wild beast seized her and dragged her into his lair in the forest?
Who acts: fierce wild beast · What happens: seize, drag · To what, where: Snowflake, lair
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce wild beast), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 beast | det |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beast | amod |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beast | amod |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dragged | cc |
| 9 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dragged | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 lair | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | a fierce wild beast | Snowflake | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | a fierce wild beast not said here | Snowflake | beast's lair | in the forest | vn carry-11.4 «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 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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