The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 69
When they reached the place of their imprisonment, Mogarzea took the cherry tree and all the elves with it on his back, and carried them off to his father’s kingdom, where everyone rejoiced to see him home again.
Who acts: elves, Mogarzea, everyone · What happens: reach, take, carry off, rejoice, see, imprison · To what, where: place, cherry tree, back, elves, kingdom, Mogarzea
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 (elves, Mogarzea, everyone), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 imprisonment | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 imprisonment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 10 | Mogarzea | Mogarzea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 elves | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 elves | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elves | det |
| 18 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tree | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 elves | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 carried | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 carried | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 carried | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 kingdom | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rejoiced | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 rejoiced | advmod |
| 36 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 37 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 carried | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 see | mark |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 rejoiced | xcomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 see | obj |
| 41 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 see | advmod |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 see | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | elves = elf | the place of elves's imprisonment | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Mogarzea | the cherry tree and all elves with tree | Mogarzea's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | carry off | past | elves = elf | Mogarzea's father's kingdom | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to kingdom=Destination | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | past | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | Mogarzea | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | imprison | elves = elf | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=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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