The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 22
The old woman returned in the night and knew by the tarnished thread what had happened in her absence.
Who acts: old woman, tarnished thread, thread · What happens: return, know, tarnish, happen, absent · To what, where: old woman, absence
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. 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, tarnished thread, thread), 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 | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 woman | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 thread | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thread | det |
| 12 | tarnished | tarnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 thread | amod |
| 13 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thread | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 absence | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 absence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the old woman not said here | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the old woman | by the tarnished thread | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | tarnish | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | the tarnished thread | thread's absence | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in absence=Location | ||||
| 5 | absent | thread | nom absence «state 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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