The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 89
The young woman was so surprised at this question that she dropped the beaded slipper she was making, and stared at the turtle.
Who acts: young woman, woman · What happens: be, drop, bead, make, stare · To what, where: question, beaded slipper
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (young woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 surprised | advmod |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 question | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 dropped | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dropped | nsubj |
| 12 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slipper | det |
| 14 | beaded | bead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 slipper | amod |
| 15 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dropped | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 making | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 making | aux |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 slipper | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stared | cc |
| 21 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dropped | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 turtle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 turtle | det |
| 24 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stared | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young woman | this question | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drop | past | woman | the beaded slipper | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bead | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | woman | the beaded slipper not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Product | ||||
| 5 | stare | past | woman not said here | at the turtle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at turtle=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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