The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 12
One day the old woman had gone to the town to buy some flour, and Peter and the maiden were left alone in the house.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: go, buy, leave · To what, where: town, flour, Peter, house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 buy | mark |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gone | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 flour | det |
| 14 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buy | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 17 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 maiden | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Peter | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gone | conj |
| 23 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 left | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the old woman | the town | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | some flour | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | Peter and the maiden | the house | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in house=Location |
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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