The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 57
Straightway the stick carried him across the river and straight into the old witch’s courtyard.
Who acts: Straightway stick · What happens: carry · To what, where: king, river
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Straightway stick), 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 | Straightway | Straightway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stick | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stick | det |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 courtyard | cc |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 courtyard | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 courtyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 witch | amod |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 witch | case |
| 16 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the Straightway stick | king | the river and the old witch's courtyard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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