The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 221

There the old man lighted a fire of straw, and then drew from an old box his wife’s dress and shoes, which the Princess put on, and thus roughly clad looked as charming as possible, and Frisk danced his very best to amuse her.

Who acts: old man, dress, Frisk · What happens: light, draw, princess, put on, look, dance · To what, where: fire, dress, old box, Princess, best, wife

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 (old man, dress, Frisk), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 lighted	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighted	nsubj
5	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighted	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 straw	case
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fire	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drew	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 drew	advmod
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 box	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 box	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 box	amod
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dress	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 wife	case
21	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shoes	cc
23	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dress	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Princess	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 Princess	nsubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
27	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dress	conj
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 Princess	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	28 put	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looked	cc
32	thus	thus	ADV	_	34 clad	advmod
33	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	34 clad	advmod
34	clad	clad	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 looked	aux:pass
35	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lighted	parataxis
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 charming	case
37	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obl
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 possible	mark
39	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 looked	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 danced	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 danced	cc
42	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 danced	nsubj
43	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	conj
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 best	nmod:poss
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 best	advmod
46	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 danced	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 amuse	mark
48	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 danced	advcl
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 amuse	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	participle	the old man	a fire of straw	there			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	draw	past	the old man not said here	Frisk's wife's dress and shoes and the Princess	a old box	then		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dress=Theme from box=Initial_Location
3	princess		Frisk's wife's dress and shoes and the Princess					tree rules
4	put on	participle		the Princess not said here				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	look	past · passive					as charming	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»
6	dance	past	Frisk	Frisk's best				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme
7	amuse	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here	wife				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
8	fire			straw				nom fire «event transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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