The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 33
The old woman was afraid to say anything more, and, putting on her richest clothes, started for the palace.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, say, put, start · To what, where: anything, richest clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | xcomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 say | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 started | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 started | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 putting | punct |
| 13 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 started | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 clothes | amod |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 putting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 putting | punct |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 started | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old woman | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put | gerund | woman's richest clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | |||||
| 4 | start | past | the old woman not said here | for the palace | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
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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