The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 36
‘I found her alone in the wood,’ replied her daughter, ‘and brought her back with me for a companion.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, reply, bring back · To what, where: sort, wood, daughter
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 companion | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 companion | det |
| 24 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | sort | the wood | alone property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | sort's daughter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring back | past | sort | with me; for a companion | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=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 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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