The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 35
Her elder sisters however left her no peace, and will she, nill she, they dragged her up to the table, and in fear and trembling she turned over the page and read:
Who acts: elder sisters, Princess, Sisters · What happens: leave, nill, drag up, tremble, turn, read · To what, where: peace, door, Princess, table, fear
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 (elder sisters, Princess, Sisters), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 2 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sisters | compound |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 peace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 peace | det |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nill | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nill | cc |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 nill | aux |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nill | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nill | punct |
| 14 | nill | nill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nill | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dragged | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dragged | nsubj |
| 18 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dragged | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 dragged | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 table | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 table | det |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dragged | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 turned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 turned | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fear | case |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trembling | cc |
| 29 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 fear | conj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 turned | nsubj |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 page | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 page | det |
| 34 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 read | cc |
| 36 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 turned | conj |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Princess's elder sisters | Princess's peace | however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | |||
| 2 | nill | future | Princess | door | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag up | past | Sisters = sister | Princess | the table | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to table=Destination | |||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | Princess not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | Princess | fear | over the page | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fear=Source over page=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | read | infinitive | Princess not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | pacify | Princess | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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