English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 68
And then they took out the princess and laid her on the bank.
Who acts: wheels · What happens: take out, lay · To what, where: princess, bank
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheels), 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 | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bank | det |
| 13 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | wheels = wheel | the princess | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | past | wheels = wheel not said here | princess | the bank | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on bank=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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