The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 16

She answered that she had been walking by the river and had dropped one of her green satin slippers into the water.

Who acts: Queen, one · What happens: answer, walk, drop, slipper · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 walking	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walking	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 walking	aux
7	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 answered	ccomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dropped	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	aux
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 answered	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 slippers	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 satin	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 satin	nmod:poss
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 satin	amod
18	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slippers	obl
19	slippers	slipper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slippers	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Queen			tree rules
2	walk	past · perfect · progressive	Queen		by the river	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory
3	drop	past · perfect				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	slipper	present	one	the water	of Queen's green satin	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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