The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 19
And when the King had ridden off she took the little shirts and went into the wood, and the reel showed her the way.
Who acts: King, queen, reel · What happens: ride off, take, go, show · To what, where: little shirts, wood, way, queen
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, queen, reel), 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 | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 ridden | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ridden | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ridden | aux |
| 6 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 ridden | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shirts | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shirts | amod |
| 12 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 showed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 showed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reel | det |
| 21 | reel | reel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 showed | nsubj |
| 22 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 showed | iobj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 showed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past · perfect | the King | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | queen | the little shirts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | queen not said here | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | show | past | the reel | the way | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic |
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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