The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 182
Good; the young woman stript off the reindeer skin, and let the widow woman do as she wished.
Who acts: woman · What happens: let, wish · To what, where: widow woman
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 (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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stript | amod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 stript | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stript | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stript | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stript | compound |
| 6 | stript | stript | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 skin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 9 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | compound |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stript | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 stript | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | compound |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wished | aux |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wished | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stript | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the widow woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wish | present · do-support | woman | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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