The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 157
So she threw them away and went on with bare feet, not heeding the bogs nor the thorns that wounded her, nor the stones that bruised her.
Who acts: mother, bogs, stones · What happens: throw away, go on, not heed, wound, bruise · To what, where: pieces, bogs, mother
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, bogs, stones), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feet | amod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heeding | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 heeding | advmod |
| 14 | heeding | heed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bogs | det |
| 16 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heeding | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 thorns | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thorns | det |
| 19 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bogs | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wounded | nsubj |
| 21 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bogs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wounded | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stones | punct |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 stones | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stones | det |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 threw | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bruised | nsubj |
| 28 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stones | acl:relcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bruised | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | mother | pieces = piece | the stones obl; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | go on | past | mother not said here | with bare feet | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not heed | gerund | mother not said here | the bogs nor the thorns | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bog=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wound | past | the bogs nor the thorns | mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | bruise | past | the stones | mother | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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