The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 29

Come, let us go to my mother’; and taking Elsa’s hand she led her deeper into the wood, the little black dog jumping up beside them and barking with pleasure.

Who acts: you, us, Elsa, little black dog · What happens: come, let, go, take, lead, jump up · To what, where: us, hand, wood

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, Elsa, little black dog), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 led	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 led	cc
12	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 led	csubj
13	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hand	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Elsa	case
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 led	nsubj
17	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 deeper	nmod:poss
19	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 led	xcomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dog	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dog	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dog	amod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dog	amod
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wood	conj
28	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dog	acl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 jumping	compound:prt
30	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 jumping	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 barking	cc
33	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 jumping	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 pleasure	case
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 barking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	us not said here			to my mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
4	take	gerund		Elsa's hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	lead	past	Elsa		the wood and the little black dog	deep property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into wood=Destination
6	jump up	gerund	the little black dog not said here			beside strawberries = strawberry	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory
7	bark	gerund	the little black dog not said here			with pleasure	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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 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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