The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 41
She struck the hearth with the birchen branch, and lo! the barleycorns flew into the pot, and the hearth was clean.
Who acts: girl, barleycorns, hearth · What happens: strike, fly, be · To what, where: hearth, pot
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 (girl, barleycorns, hearth), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hearth | det |
| 4 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 7 | birchen | birchen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 branch | amod |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 11 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 15 flew | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lo | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 barleycorns | det |
| 14 | barleycorns | barleycorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pot | det |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 clean | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clean | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hearth | det |
| 22 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clean | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 clean | cop |
| 24 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flew | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | girl | the hearth | with the birchen branch | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hearth=Patient with branch=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the barleycorns | into the pot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pot=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the hearth | clean property | tree rules |
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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