The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 190
But all these shapes the King’s son went on destroying till she stood before him in human form again.
Who acts: shapes, woman · What happens: go, destroy, stand · To what, where: human form
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 (shapes, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 shapes | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 shapes | det |
| 4 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 destroying | mark |
| 11 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 stood | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 form | case |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 form | amod |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | all shapes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | destroy | gerund | all shapes not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | woman | human form | before son; again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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