The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 43
Then her mother bade her bathe on one side of the stem, dry herself on another, and dress on the third.
Who acts: girl · What happens: dry, bathe · To what, where: girl, another, one side
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bade | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bathe | nsubj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bathe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bathe | bathe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 side | nummod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bathe | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stem | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stem | det |
| 12 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dry | punct |
| 14 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bathe | conj |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 dry | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 dry | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dress | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dress | cc |
| 20 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bathe | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 third | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 third | det |
| 23 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 dress | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | infinitive | girl | another | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result | ||||
| 2 | bathe | girl | one side of the stem | nom bathe «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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