The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 56
There she called to her own attendants, bade them follow her into the carriage, and drove straight to the sea-side.
Who acts: wife, attendants · What happens: call, follow, drive · To what, where: own attendants, bade, carriage, sea side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, attendants), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 called | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 attendants | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attendants | amod |
| 7 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 follow | punct |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 follow | obl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | nsubj |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 carriage | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 carriage | det |
| 15 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 follow | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 side | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sea | punct |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | wife | wife's own attendants | there | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient | |||
| 2 | follow | present | attendants = attendant | bade | the carriage | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme into carriage=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | drive | past | wife not said here | the sea side | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to side=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 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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