The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 85
‘And drowned my twelfth daughter in the well, and took my lamp?’
What happens: drown, take · To what, where: twelfth daughter, well, lamp
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 drowned | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 drowned | cc |
| 3 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drowned | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 well | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 well | det |
| 9 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drowned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drowned | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lamp | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 drowned | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | my twelfth daughter | the well | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | my lamp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=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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