The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 55
Arrived at home, she took off her clothes by the birch tree, left her horse standing there, and hastened to her place behind the stove.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: arrive, take off, leave, stand, hasten · To what, where: home, clothes, horse, place
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), 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 | Arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 home | case |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Arrived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Arrived | parataxis |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 left | advcl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 standing | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hastened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hastened | cc |
| 22 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 took | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 place | nmod:poss |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hastened | obl |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 stove | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stove | det |
| 28 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 place | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle | home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take off | past | daughter | daughter's clothes | by the birch tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | daughter not said here | daughter's horse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | daughter not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hasten | participle | daughter not said here | daughter's place behind the stove | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
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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