The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 64
He wrapped her up in his cloak, placed her before him on his horse, and brought her to his castle.
Who acts: king · What happens: wrap up, place, bring · To what, where: maiden, cloak, castle
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrapped | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cloak | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrapped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 placed | punct |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrapped | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrapped | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 castle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past | king | maiden | king's cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cloak=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | past | king not said here | maiden | before king | on king's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination | ||
| 3 | bring | past | maiden | king's castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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