The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 12
Then she took him up and placed him on a dish.
Who acts: voice · What happens: take up, place · To what, where: fish, dish
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 placed | cc |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 placed | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 dish | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dish | det |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | voice | fish | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | past | voice not said here | fish | a dish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on dish=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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