The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 70
She brought the oven spade, and told Esben to seat himself on it, so that she could shoot him into the oven.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: bring, tell, shoot · To what, where: oven spade, seat, Esben, property, oven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spade | det |
| 4 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spade | compound |
| 5 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 9 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seat | mark |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 seat | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shoot | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 shoot | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shoot | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 shoot | aux |
| 20 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shoot | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 oven | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 oven | det |
| 24 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoot | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | daughter | the oven spade | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spade=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | seat property | Esben | seat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent esben=Recipient seat=Topic | |||
| 3 | shoot | could | daughter | property | the oven | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into oven=Destination |
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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