The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 49
After some weeks her third trial came, and the yarn was given her to spin, as it had been given to her stepsister before her.
Who acts: third trial, girl · What happens: come, give, spin, try · To what, where: yarn, stepsister
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third trial, girl), 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 | _ | 3 weeks | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 weeks | det |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trial | nmod:poss |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 trial | amod |
| 6 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 given | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 yarn | det |
| 11 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spin | mark |
| 16 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 given | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 given | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 given | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 given | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 stepsister | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | girl's third trial | week | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | the yarn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spin | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | yarn | girl's stepsister | before girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to stepsister=Recipient | |||
| 5 | try | girl | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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