The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 45
Then he kissed her, and led her out, lifted her on his horse and took her to his royal palace, where the wedding was celebrated with great rejoicings.
Who acts: son · What happens: kiss, lead out, lift, take, celebrate · To what, where: poorest, royal palace, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | nsubj |
| 3 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kissed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 led | cc |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 led | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lifted | punct |
| 11 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kissed | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lifted | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifted | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lifted | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 palace | nmod:poss |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 palace | amod |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 celebrated | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 celebrated | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wedding | det |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 28 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 palace | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 rejoicings | case |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 rejoicings | amod |
| 31 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 celebrated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | son | poorest = poor | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | lead out | past | son not said here | poorest = poor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | son not said here | poorest = poor | on son's horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on horse=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | past | son not said here | poorest = poor | son's royal palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 5 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | with great rejoicings | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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