The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 116
Well, then the Prince gave the witch’s daughter the ring, and the woman filed and pared away at her daughter’s finger till the ring fitted.
Who acts: Prince, woman · What happens: give, file, pare away, fit · To what, where: ring, daughter, finger
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, woman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 gave | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 witch | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filed | nsubj |
| 17 | filed | file | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pared | cc |
| 19 | pared | pare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 filed | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 pared | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 finger | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finger | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 25 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pared | obl |
| 26 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 ring | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ring | det |
| 28 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pared | obl |
| 29 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 ring | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Prince | the ring | the witch's daughter | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient ring=Theme | ||
| 2 | file | past | the woman | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pare away | past | the woman not said here | daughter's daughter's finger | till the ring | away property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||
| 4 | fit | participle | the ring not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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