The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 21
Last of all she took the Queen, put her into the boat, and said--
Who acts: Last · What happens: take, put, say · To what, where: Queen, boat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Last), 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 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 took | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Last | nmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | parataxis |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Last of all | the Queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument queen=Destination | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Last of all not said here | Queen | the boat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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