More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 7
The babe becomes bearded, and the other woman raising her hand to wipe her eyes finds her nose following her hand--_dénouement_ on which the scene closes.
Who acts: babe, other woman, scene · What happens: become, raise, wipe, find, follow, close · To what, where: hand, eyes, nose, dénouement
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babe, other woman, scene), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 babe | det |
| 2 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 becomes | nsubj |
| 3 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 becomes | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 finds | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 finds | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finds | nsubj |
| 10 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 woman | acl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raising | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wipe | mark |
| 14 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 raising | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wipe | obj |
| 17 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 becomes | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nose | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finds | obj |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 finds | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 following | obj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 dénouement | punct |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 dénouement | punct |
| 25 | dénouement | dénouement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 finds | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 dénouement | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 closes | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 scene | det |
| 30 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 closes | nsubj |
| 31 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dénouement | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the babe | bearded property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | the other woman not said here | babe's hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wipe | to-infinitive | the other woman not said here | babe's eyes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | ||||
| 4 | find | present | the other woman | babe's nose | dénouement obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic | |||
| 5 | follow | gerund | the other woman not said here | babe's hand | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | close | present | the scene | dénouement | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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