The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 76
Then she called for a clothes-wallet and chose out a royal dress of honour.
Who acts: spite · What happens: call, choose out · To what, where: royal dress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spite), 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 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wallet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wallet | det |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 wallet | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wallet | punct |
| 8 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chose | cc |
| 10 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 chose | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dress | det |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dress | amod |
| 14 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chose | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 honour | case |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dress | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | spite | then | for a clothes wallet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wallet=Recipient | |||
| 2 | choose out | past | spite not said here | a royal dress of honour | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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