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The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 122

Just as they were taking leave, the kitchen wench sprang down from her place by the stove, on the pretext of fetching something from the cowhouse, and in going by she whispered in the Prince’s ear as he stood in the yard:

Who acts: festivities, kitchen wench, pretext, Prince · What happens: take, spring down, fetch, go, whisper, stand · To what, where: leave, place, something, cowhouse, ear

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 (festivities, kitchen wench, pretext, Prince), 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

advmodmarknsubjauxadvclobjpunctdetcompoundnsubjadvmodcasenmod:possoblcasedetnmodpunctcasedetoblmarkaclobjcasedetoblpunctccmarkadvclcaseoblconjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctrootJustADVasSCONJtheyPRONwereAUXtakingVERBleaveNOUN,PUNCTtheDETkitchenNOUNwenchNOUNsprangVERBdownADVfromADPherPRONplaceNOUNbyADPtheDETstoveNOUN,PUNCTonADPtheDETpretextNOUNofSCONJfetchingVERBsomethingPRONfromADPtheDETcowhouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinSCONJgoingVERBbyADPshePRONwhisperedVERBinADPtheDETPrincePROPN’sPARTearNOUNasSCONJhePRONstoodVERBinADPtheDETyardNOUN:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1JustjustADV_5 takingadvmod
2asasSCONJ_5 takingmark
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 takingnsubj
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 takingaux
5takingtakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 sprangadvcl
6leaveleaveNOUNNumber=Sing5 takingobj
7,,PUNCT_5 takingpunct
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 wenchdet
9kitchenkitchenNOUNNumber=Sing10 wenchcompound
10wenchwenchNOUNNumber=Sing11 sprangnsubj
11sprangspringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12downdownADV_11 sprangadvmod
13fromfromADP_15 placecase
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 placenmod:poss
15placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 sprangobl
16bybyADP_18 stovecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 stovedet
18stovestoveNOUNNumber=Sing15 placenmod
19,,PUNCT_22 pretextpunct
20ononADP_22 pretextcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 pretextdet
22pretextpretextNOUNNumber=Sing11 sprangobl
23ofofSCONJ_24 fetchingmark
24fetchingfetchVERBVerbForm=Ger22 pretextacl
25somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind24 fetchingobj
26fromfromADP_28 cowhousecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 cowhousedet
28cowhousecowhouseNOUNNumber=Sing24 fetchingobl
29,,PUNCT_35 whisperedpunct
30andandCCONJ_35 whisperedcc
31ininSCONJ_32 goingmark
32goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 whisperedadvcl
33bybyADP_34 shecase
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 goingobl
35whisperedwhisperVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 sprangconj
36ininADP_40 earcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 Princedet
38PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing40 earnmod:poss
39’s'sPART_38 Princecase
40earearNOUNNumber=Sing35 whisperedobl
41asasSCONJ_43 stoodmark
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 stoodnsubj
43stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 whisperedadvcl
44ininADP_46 yardcase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 yarddet
46yardyardNOUNNumber=Sing43 stoodobl
47::PUNCT_11 sprangpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepast · progressivefestivities = festivityleavevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
2spring downpastthe kitchen wenchwench's place by the stoveon the pretext; down propertyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory
3fetchgerundthe pretext not said heresomethingthe cowhousevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Theme from cowhouse=Source
4gogerundby wenchvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by she=Location
5whisper speech: assertpastthe kitchen wench not said herethe Prince's earvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
6standpastPrincein the yardvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in yard=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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