The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 131
The girl thanked her, and put on the cloths and went down the road to do her bidding.
Who acts: girl · What happens: thank, put, go down, do, bid · To what, where: woman, cloths, road, bidding
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cloths | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cloths | det |
| 10 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the girl | woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | the cloths | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloth=Destination | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | the road | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient road=Extent | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | girl's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | bid | girl | nom bidding «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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