English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 26
Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper.
Who acts: mother · What happens: take, stew, bring · To what, where: heart, house
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 liver | cc |
| 7 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 liver | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stewed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stewed | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stewed | nsubj |
| 15 | stewed | stew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stewed | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stewed | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 supper | case |
| 24 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mother | the heart and liver of the little girl | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | stew | past | mother | heart | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | mother not said here | heart | the house for supper | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into house=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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