The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 66
The girl wept bitterly; then she went to the birch tree, washed herself on one side of it and dried herself on the other; and this time still finer clothes were given to her, and a very beautiful steed.
Who acts: girl · What happens: weep, go, wash, dry, give · To what, where: birch tree, girl, one side, other, time
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 went | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 washed | punct |
| 14 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 washed | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 side | nummod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 washed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 side | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dried | cc |
| 22 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 washed | conj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 dried | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 other | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dried | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 given | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 given | cc |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 given | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 finer | advmod |
| 32 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 clothes | amod |
| 33 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 30 time | conj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 given | aux:pass |
| 35 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wept | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 given | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 steed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 steed | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 steed | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 beautiful | advmod |
| 42 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 steed | amod |
| 43 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 given | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the girl | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | girl | the birch tree | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | wash | past | girl not said here | girl | one side of side | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 4 | dry | past | girl not said here | girl | the other | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result | |||
| 5 | give | past · passive | this time and finer clothes | girl | a beautiful steed obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient |
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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