The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 51

She looked about her, and ran hither and thither gathering fruit and flowers, and her little dog Frisk, who was bright green all over, and had but one ear, danced before her, crying ‘Bow-wow-wow,’ and turning head over heels in the most enchanting way.

Who acts: word, little dog · What happens: look, run, gather, be, have, dance · To what, where: fruit, one ear, head, heels

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 (word, little dog), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
8	hither	hither	ADV	_	7 ran	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gathering	cc
10	thither	thither	ADV	_	11 gathering	advmod
11	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ran	conj
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gathering	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flowers	cc
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fruit	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 green	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 green	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dog	nmod:poss
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dog	amod
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 green	nsubj
20	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dog	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 green	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 green	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 green	cop
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 green	amod
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	conj
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 over	advmod
27	over	over	ADV	_	25 green	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 danced	cc
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ear	nummod
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 danced	nsubj:pass
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 danced	punct
35	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 had	conj
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 danced	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 crying	punct
39	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 danced	advcl
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 wow	punct
41	Bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wow	nsubj
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 wow	punct
43	wow	wow	INTJ	_	45 wow	discourse
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 wow	punct
45	wow	wow	INTJ	_	39 crying	discourse
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wow	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 wow	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 turning	cc
49	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 crying	conj
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 turning	obj
51	over	over	ADP	_	52 heels	case
52	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 turning	obl
53	in	in	ADP	_	57 way	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 way	det
55	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	56 enchanting	advmod
56	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 way	amod
57	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 turning	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	word				about Rosette	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme
2	run	past					hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	gerund		fruit and flowers			thither property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
4	is	past	word's little dog				green, over property	tree rules
5	have	past						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	dance	participle · passive		one ear		before word		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	cry speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	turn	gerund		head	heels		in the enchanting way	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme over heel=Source in way=Trajectory
9	enchant	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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