The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 67
And the princess with her magic wand touched the wrinkled old women, and left them the withered roots they really were, to be thrown upon the rubbish heap; and with light feet skipped off across to the meadow to take possession of the freshly filled basket.
Who acts: princess · What happens: touch, wrinkle, leave, wither, throw, skip off · To what, where: wrinkled old women, youth, rubbish heap, light feet, meadow, possession
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 touched | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wand | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wand | amod |
| 7 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 princess | nmod |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 10 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 women | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 women | amod |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 touched | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roots | det |
| 18 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 roots | amod |
| 19 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 were | nsubj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 were | advmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 roots | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thrown | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 thrown | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thrown | aux:pass |
| 26 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 left | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 heap | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 heap | det |
| 29 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heap | compound |
| 30 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thrown | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 feet | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 feet | cc |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 feet | case |
| 34 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 feet | compound |
| 35 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touched | parataxis |
| 36 | skipped | skip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 feet | acl |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 skipped | compound:prt |
| 38 | across | across | ADV | _ | 36 skipped | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 meadow | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 meadow | det |
| 41 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 skipped | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 take | mark |
| 43 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 meadow | acl |
| 44 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 take | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 basket | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 basket | det |
| 47 | freshly | freshly | ADV | _ | 48 filled | advmod |
| 48 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 basket | amod |
| 49 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 possession | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the princess with princess's magic wand | the wrinkled old women | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | the princess with princess's magic wand not said here | youth | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme root=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | the princess with princess's magic wand not said here | the rubbish heap | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon heap=Destination | ||||
| 6 | skip off | participle | light feet not said here | the meadow | across property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Destination | |||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | possession of the filled basket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||||
| 8 | fill | participle | freshly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | possess | the filled basket | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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