The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 11
And then she stepped into the water, brought the boat in close with her crutch, and lifted little Gerda out.
Who acts: woman · What happens: step, bring, lift out · To what, where: water, boat, close, little Gerda
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | _ | 4 stepped | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 close | case |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 crutch | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 crutch | nmod:poss |
| 16 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 close | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lifted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lifted | cc |
| 19 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Gerda | amod |
| 21 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lifted | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 lifted | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | woman | the water | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring | past | woman not said here | the boat | close | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 3 | lift out | past | woman not said here | little Gerda | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=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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