The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 66
Having done this, the witches disappeared, and the youth with his lovely bride drove to his mother’s home.
Who acts: witches, youth · What happens: have, do, disappear, drive · To what, where: this, home
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witches, youth), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 disappeared | advcl |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witches | det |
| 6 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disappeared | nsubj |
| 7 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drove | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drove | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drove | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bride | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bride | amod |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 youth | nmod |
| 16 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 mother | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drove | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the witches not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | the witches not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | the witches | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drive | past | the youth with youth's lovely bride | youth's mother's home | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to home=Trajectory |
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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