The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 13
Then Thakane dried her eyes, and gladly accepted the old woman’s offer.
Who acts: Thakane, old woman · What happens: dry, accept, offer · To what, where: eyes, offer
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane, old 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dried | advmod |
| 2 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dried | nsubj |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accepted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 accepted | cc |
| 8 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 9 accepted | advmod |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dried | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 14 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | Thakane | Thakane's eyes | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | |||
| 2 | accept | past | Thakane not said here | the old woman's offer | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer | the old woman | nom offer «communication 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 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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