The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 67
But at last I dressed myself as an old woman, and knocked boldly at her door.
Who acts: I · What happens: dress, knock · To what, where: myself, last
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 dressed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dressed | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 dressed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knocked | cc |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 14 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 knocked | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 door | nmod:poss |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | I | myself | last | as a old woman | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | ||
| 2 | knock | past | I not said here | at maiden's door; boldly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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: «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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