The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 138
On the third day the old mother sent Stan into the forest for wood, and, as usual, the dragon went with him.
Who acts: old mother, dragon · What happens: send, go · To what, where: Stan, forest
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mother, dragon), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mother | amod |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 usual | case |
| 19 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 usual | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the old mother | Stan | the forest | day | for wood | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stan=Theme | |
| 2 | go | past | the dragon | as usual; with Stan | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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