The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 146
She then threw away her second pair of shoes, which were quite worn out, and with her child on her arm and her staff in her hand, she set forth on her way to the Wind.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: throw away, wear out, set · To what, where: second pair, shoes, way
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 (Princess), 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 | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 pair | amod |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shoes | case |
| 9 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 worn | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worn | aux:pass |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 worn | advmod |
| 14 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 worn | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 set | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 arm | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arm | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 child | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 staff | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 staff | nmod:poss |
| 26 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arm | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 staff | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 child | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 set | nsubj |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 33 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 set | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 way | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 way | nmod:poss |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Wind | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Wind | det |
| 39 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 way | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | Princess | Princess's second pair of shoes | then | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||
| 2 | wear out | past · passive | shoes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | set | past | Princess | Princess's way to the Wind | with Princess's child on Princess's arm and Princess's staff in Princess's hand; forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination |
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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