The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 18

‘And now you have taken my lamp, and drowned my twelfth daughter in the well?’

Who acts: you, ‘ · What happens: take, drown · To what, where: lamp, twelfth daughter, well

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ‘), 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 drowned	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 taken	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 taken	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 taken	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 ‘	conj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lamp	nmod:poss
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drowned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drowned	cc
11	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
13	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daughter	amod
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drowned	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 well	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 well	det
17	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drowned	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	you	my lamp			now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
2	drown	past	‘	my twelfth daughter		the well			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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