The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 94
And the girl took them to the river and washed hard for several hours, but wash as she would they never changed one whit.
Who acts: girl, woman · What happens: take, wash, not change · To what, where: yarns, river, one whit
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 washed | cc |
| 10 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 river | conj |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 washed | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hours | amod |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 washed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wash | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 wash | cc |
| 17 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 changed | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 changed | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 changed | aux |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 changed | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 changed | advmod |
| 23 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wash | advcl |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 whit | nummod |
| 25 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 changed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the girl | yarns = yarn | the river | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to river=Destination | |||
| 2 | wash | participle | the girl not said here | hour | hard property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | the girl not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not change | would | woman | one whit | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whit=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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