The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 34
Then she plucked rushes and plaited a soft cord of them, which she fastened to the collar.
Who acts: girl · What happens: pluck, plait, fasten · To what, where: rushes, soft cord
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:963): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 plucked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plucked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 plaited | cc |
| 6 | plaited | plait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plucked | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cord | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cord | amod |
| 9 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plaited | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cord | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fastened | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fastened | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fastened | nsubj |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cord | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 collar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 collar | det |
| 18 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | girl | rushes | then | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rush=Patient | |||
| 2 | plait | past | girl not said here | a soft cord of rushes | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fasten | past | girl | a soft cord of rushes | to the collar | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent which=Patient to collar=Co-Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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