The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 94
Though it was still night, he got into a carriage with her, and they took the false bride’s clothes away, so that she could not follow them.
Who acts: sweetheart, prince, dishes, bride · What happens: be, get, take, not follow · To what, where: night, carriage, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetheart, prince, dishes, bride), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 night | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 night | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 night | advmod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 carriage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 carriage | det |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carriage | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bride | det |
| 19 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bride | amod |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 bride | case |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 took | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 follow | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 follow | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 follow | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 follow | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 follow | advmod |
| 30 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | advcl |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 follow | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sweetheart | night | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | prince | a carriage with bride | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | dishes = dish | the false bride's clothes | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 4 | not follow | could | bride | clothes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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