The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 19
And she gave her grandchildren a bottle of milk and a piece of ham and a loaf of bread, and they set out for the great gloomy wood.
Who acts: last, grandchildren · What happens: give, set out · To what, where: grandchildren
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, grandchildren), 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 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 milk | case |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottle | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 piece | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milk | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ham | case |
| 14 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loaf | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 loaf | det |
| 17 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milk | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bread | case |
| 19 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loaf | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wood | amod |
| 28 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wood | amod |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | last | last's grandchildren | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Recipient bottle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | grandchildren = grandchild | for the great gloomy wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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