The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 156
On and on she walked until her last pair of shoes fell in pieces.
Who acts: mother, last pair · What happens: walk, fall · To what, where: pieces
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 (mother, last pair), 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 | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pair | amod |
| 9 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shoes | case |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pair | nmod |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | mother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | mother's last pair of shoes | pieces | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |
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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