The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 11
He took her into the cottage, and from that time she was obliged to keep house for him.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, oblige, keep · To what, where: bride, cottage, house
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 cottage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obliged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obliged | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obliged | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 obliged | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 obliged | aux:pass |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obliged | advcl |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | bride | the cottage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | bride | time | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | house | for man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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