The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 114
On reaching a town, the first thing she did was to order three pairs of iron sandals and a steel staff, and having made these preparations for her journey, she set out in search of her husband.
Who acts: first thing, fate · What happens: reach, do, order, make, set out, journey · To what, where: town, first thing, three pairs, preparations, search, husband
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thing, fate), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 order | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 order | nsubj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 order | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 order | mark |
| 13 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pairs | nummod |
| 15 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 order | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sandals | case |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sandals | compound |
| 18 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pairs | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 staff | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 staff | det |
| 21 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 staff | compound |
| 22 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pairs | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 25 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 made | aux |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 order | parataxis |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 preparations | det |
| 28 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 journey | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 journey | nmod:poss |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 preparations | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 set | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 set | nsubj |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 preparations | acl:relcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 set | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 search | case |
| 37 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 set | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 husband | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 husband | nmod:poss |
| 40 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 search | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the first thing not said here | a town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | fate | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the first thing | three pairs of iron sandals and a steel staff | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund · perfect | this preparations | for fate's journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | fate | this preparations not said here | search of fate's husband | tree rules | |||
| 6 | journey | fate | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | search | fate's husband | nom search «act 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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