More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 21
Again, before putting on her magic dresses she bathes in a pellucid pool.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: put, dress, bathe · To what, where: magic
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 8 dresses | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 putting | mark |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dresses | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 magic | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 magic | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 putting | obl |
| 8 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bathes | nsubj |
| 10 | bathes | bathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dresses | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pool | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pool | det |
| 13 | pellucid | pellucid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pool | compound |
| 14 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bathes | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dresses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | Cat's magic | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on magic=Destination | |||||
| 2 | dress | present | again | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bathe | present | Cat | in a pellucid pool | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pool=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: «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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