The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 154
And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water than it was white as driven snow, and even whiter than that.
Who acts: larger, shirt · What happens: take, dip, be, drive · To what, where: shirt, water
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (larger, shirt), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 taken | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 taken | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shirt | det |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dipped | cc |
| 10 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dipped | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dipped | obl |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 white | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 white | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 white | cop |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dipped | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 snow | case |
| 20 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 snow | amod |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 white | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 whiter | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 whiter | cc |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 whiter | advmod |
| 25 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 white | conj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 whiter | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | larger = large | the shirt | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | |||
| 2 | dip | past | larger = large not said here | shirt | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | shirt | as driven snow; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drive | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be | shirt not said here | than that | tree rules |
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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