The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 99
The wife did as she was told, and wrapping herself in sackcloth went up to the Sultana’s own palace, and as she was known to have been one of Subida’s favourite attendants, she was taken without difficulty into the private apartments.
Who acts: wife, wrapping · What happens: do, tell, wrap, go up, know, be · To what, where: wife, sackcloth, one, private apartments · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, wrapping), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 10 | wrapping | wrap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 went | csubj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 wrapping | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sackcloth | case |
| 13 | sackcloth | sackcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrapping | obl |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sultana | det |
| 18 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Sultana | case |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 palace | amod |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 taken | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 taken | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 known | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 known | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 taken | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 one | mark |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 one | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 one | cop |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 known | xcomp |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 attendants | case |
| 33 | Subida | Subida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Subida | case |
| 35 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 attendants | amod |
| 36 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 one | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 known | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 taken | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 taken | aux:pass |
| 40 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 41 | without | without | ADP | _ | 42 difficulty | case |
| 42 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 taken | obl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 apartments | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 apartments | det |
| 45 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 apartments | amod |
| 46 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 taken | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | wrap | gerund | wife | sackcloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in sackcloth=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go up | past | wrapping | to the Sultana's own palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | know | past · passive | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | one | of Subida's favourite attendants | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take | past · passive | wife | the private apartments | without difficulty | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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