The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 71

Quick as thought, the maiden slid down the smooth trunk of the tree, and stood beside the stupid old woman, to teach her how things ought to be done.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: slide down, stand, teach, do · To what, where: smooth trunk, woman, things

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 thought	case
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quick	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slid	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slid	nsubj
7	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	acl:relcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 slid	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trunk	det
10	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trunk	amod
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slid	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trunk	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slid	conj
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	22 woman	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
20	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 teach	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 teach	mark
25	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stood	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 teach	obj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 done	advmod
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 done	nsubj:pass
29	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
30	to	to	PART	_	32 done	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 done	aux:pass
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 teach	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	slide down	past	the maiden	the smooth trunk of the tree			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Agent
2	stand	past	the maiden not said here			beside the stupid old woman	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside woman=Location
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	do	ought · passive		things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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