The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 51
She did not forget to touch the rest of the roots with her magic wand, and soon had all her maidens about her, and even, as she had two tiny radishes to spare, her favourite cat, and her little dog whose name was Beni.
Who acts: princess, little dog, Beni · What happens: not forget, touch, have, spare, be, name · To what, where: rest, maidens, two tiny radishes, favourite cat, Beni
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, little dog, Beni), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 forget | advmod |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 touch | mark |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forget | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 roots | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roots | det |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rest | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wand | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wand | amod |
| 15 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roots | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 had | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | parataxis |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 maidens | det:predet |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 22 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 maidens | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 had | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 even | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | parataxis |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 radishes | nummod |
| 33 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 radishes | amod |
| 34 | radishes | radish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 had | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 spare | mark |
| 36 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cat | punct |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 cat | nmod:poss |
| 39 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cat | amod |
| 40 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spare | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Beni | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Beni | cc |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 dog | nmod:poss |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 dog | amod |
| 45 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Beni | nsubj |
| 46 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 47 name | nmod:poss |
| 47 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Beni | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 Beni | cop |
| 49 | Beni | Beni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forget | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · do-support | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the rest of the roots with princess's magic wand | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | princess's maidens | about princess; soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | princess | two tiny radishes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radish=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spare | to-infinitive | princess not said here | princess's favourite cat | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent cat=Asset | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | princess's little dog | Beni | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | name | Beni | nom name «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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