The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 63
And he turned towards home, taking his sheep and the soul of Mogarzea with him.
Who acts: man · What happens: turn, take · To what, where: home, sheep
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taking | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 soul | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soul | det |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mogarzea | case |
| 14 | Mogarzea | Mogarzea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 soul | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | man | home | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards home=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | man not said here | man's sheep | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=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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