The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 117
And she set him close to her in the sledge and drew the cloak over him.
Who acts: queen · What happens: set, draw · To what, where: masterpiece, sledge, cloak
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 set | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 close | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sledge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sledge | det |
| 10 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cloak | det |
| 14 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | queen | masterpiece | the sledge | close property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sledge=Destination | ||
| 2 | draw | past | queen not said here | the cloak | over sledge | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=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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