The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 72
It happened that soon after this the mother sent the two girls to the town to buy needles, thread, laces, and ribbons.
Who acts: It, mother · What happens: happen, send, buy · To what, where: ribbons, two girls, town, needles
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 (It, mother), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sent | mark |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 sent | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 soon | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girls | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 girls | nummod |
| 12 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 buy | mark |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 18 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buy | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thread | punct |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needles | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laces | punct |
| 22 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 needles | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ribbons | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ribbons | cc |
| 25 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | ribbons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the mother | the two girls | the town | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to town=Destination | ||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | the mother not said here | needles and thread and laces | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme |
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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