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The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 53

Towards evening the good man’s daughter thought it was time to go home; but as she went, her ring caught on the latch of the door, for the King’s son had had it smeared with tar.

Who acts: daughter, arm, son · What happens: think, be, go, catch, have, smear · To what, where: time, ring, latch, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (daughter, arm, son), 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

compoundobl:unmarkeddetamodnmod:posscasensubjnsubjcopccompmarkacladvmodpunctccmarknsubjparataxispunctnmod:possoblaclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctmarkdetnmod:posscasensubjconjccompobjxcompcaseoblpunctrootTowardsNOUNeveningNOUNtheDETgoodADJmanNOUN’sPARTdaughterNOUNthoughtVERBitPRONwasAUXtimeNOUNtoPARTgoVERBhomeADV;PUNCTbutCCONJasSCONJshePRONwentVERB,PUNCTherPRONringNOUNcaughtVERBonADPtheDETlatchNOUNofADPtheDETdoorNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTsonNOUNhadVERBhadVERBitPRONsmearedVERBwithADPtarNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TowardstowardNOUNNumber=Plur2 eveningcompound
2eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing8 thoughtobl:unmarked
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 mandet
4goodgoodADJDegree=Pos5 manamod
5manmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 daughternmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 mancase
7daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing8 thoughtnsubj
8thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 timensubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 timecop
11timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing8 thoughtccomp
12totoPART_13 gomark
13gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf11 timeacl
14homehomeADV_13 goadvmod
15;;PUNCT_19 wentpunct
16butbutCCONJ_19 wentcc
17asasSCONJ_19 wentmark
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 wentnsubj
19wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 thoughtparataxis
20,,PUNCT_22 ringpunct
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 ringnmod:poss
22ringringNOUNNumber=Sing19 wentobl
23caughtcatchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 ringacl
24ononADP_26 latchcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 latchdet
26latchlatchNOUNNumber=Sing23 caughtobl
27ofofADP_29 doorcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 doordet
29doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing26 latchnmod
30,,PUNCT_36 hadpunct
31forforSCONJ_36 hadmark
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 Kingdet
33KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing35 sonnmod:poss
34’s'sPART_33 Kingcase
35sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing36 hadnsubj
36hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 wentconj
37hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 hadccomp
38ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 hadobj
39smearedsmearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass37 hadxcomp
40withwithADP_41 tarcase
41tartarNOUNNumber=Sing39 smearedobl
42..PUNCT_8 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastthe good man's daughtereveningvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is apastarmtimetree rules
3goto-infinitivethe good man's daughter not said herehome propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4gopastdaughterdaughter's ringvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5catchparticipledaughter's ring not said herethe latch of the doorvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6havepastthe King's sontree rules
7havepastthe King's son not said herearmtree rules
8smearparticiplearm not said herewith tarvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme

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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