The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 73
She ran home to her mother at the top of her speed, yelling with rage and despair; and it took Lizina two hours with a big basin of hot water and two cakes of soap to get rid of the layer of ashes with which Father Gatto had adorned her.
Who acts: Peppina, it, Father · What happens: run, yell, take, get, adorn · To what, where: top, Lizina, Peppina
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppina, it, Father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 speed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yelling | punct |
| 14 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ran | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rage | case |
| 16 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yelling | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 despair | cc |
| 18 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rage | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 23 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hours | nummod |
| 25 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 basin | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 basin | det |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 basin | amod |
| 29 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 water | amod |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 basin | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cakes | cc |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 cakes | nummod |
| 35 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 water | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 soap | case |
| 37 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cakes | nmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 get | mark |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 took | advcl |
| 40 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 get | xcomp |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 layer | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 layer | det |
| 43 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rid | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 ashes | case |
| 45 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 layer | nmod |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 adorned | obl |
| 48 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 adorned | nsubj |
| 49 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Father | flat |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 adorned | aux |
| 51 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 ashes | acl:relcl |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 adorned | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Peppina | the top of Peppina's speed | to Peppina's mother result; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result | |||
| 2 | yell speech: express | gerund | Peppina not said here | with rage and despair | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | it | Lizina | hour | with a big basin of hot water and two cakes of soap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lizina=Destination | ||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | adorn | past · perfect | Father | Peppina | with ashes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with which=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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