The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 50
After that he stopped at the houses of the three old women, and gave each one back her napkin and her cake.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: stop, give back · To what, where: houses, one
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 (Peter), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stopped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 houses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 houses | det |
| 7 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 women | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 women | nummod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 women | amod |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 houses | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 gave | advmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 napkin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cake | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cake | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 napkin | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Peter | the houses of the three old women | after that | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | |||
| 2 | give back | past | Peter not said here | each one | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient napkin=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: «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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