The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 13
When this pretty girl came home her mother scolded her for staying so long at the fountain.
Who acts: pretty girl, mother · What happens: come, scold, stay · To what, where: fairy, fountain
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty girl, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scolded | advcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scolded | nsubj |
| 9 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scolded | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 staying | mark |
| 12 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 scolded | advcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 staying | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 fountain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fountain | det |
| 17 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staying | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this pretty girl | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scold | past | fairy's mother | fairy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | gerund | fairy's mother not said here | the fountain | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fountain=Location |
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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