The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 47

I had successfully driven in the wedge, and all was going well, but the cursed wood was so slippery that it suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed up so rapidly that I had no time to take my beautiful white beard out, so here I am stuck fast, and I can’t get away; and you silly, smooth-faced, milk-and-water girls just stand and laugh!

Who acts: I, cursed wood, wedge, tree, milk · What happens: drive, go, curse, be, spring out, close up · To what, where: wedge, beautiful white beard

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cursed wood, wedge, tree), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 driven	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 driven	aux
3	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	4 driven	advmod
4	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wedge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wedge	det
7	wedge	wedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driven	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 going	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 driven	conj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 going	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slippery	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 slippery	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
17	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wood	amod
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slippery	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 slippery	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 slippery	advmod
21	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 driven	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 sprang	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sprang	nsubj
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 sprang	advmod
25	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 slippery	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 sprang	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 closed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 closed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 closed	nsubj
31	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 slippery	parataxis
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 closed	compound:prt
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 rapidly	advmod
34	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	31 closed	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 rapidly	advcl
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 time	acl
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 beard	nmod:poss
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 beard	amod
44	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 beard	amod
45	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obj
46	out	out	ADP	_	41 take	compound:prt
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 here	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 here	advmod
49	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 closed	advmod
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 stuck	nsubj
51	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 stuck	cop
52	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 here	obl
53	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 stuck	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 get	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 get	cc
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 get	nsubj
57	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 get	aux
58	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 get	advmod
59	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 closed	conj
60	away	away	ADV	_	59 get	advmod
61	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 silly	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 silly	cc
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 silly	nsubj
64	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 driven	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 faced	punct
66	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 faced	amod
67	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 smooth	punct
68	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 silly	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 stand	punct
70	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 stand	nsubj
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	77 stand	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 stand	cc
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	72 and	punct
74	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 girls	compound
75	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	77 stand	nsubj
76	just	just	ADV	_	77 stand	advmod
77	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 silly	advcl
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 laugh	cc
79	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	77 stand	conj
80	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past · perfect	I		the wedge		successfully property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past · progressive	I not said here				well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	curse	participle						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the cursed wood				slippery property	tree rules
5	spring out	past	wedge				suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	close up	participle	the tree		here		rapidly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	have	past	I			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	take out	to-infinitive	I not said here	my beautiful white beard				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Theme
9	is	present	I				fast, stuck property	tree rules
10	not get away	can	I				away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	stand	present	milk					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	laugh	present	milk not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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