The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 72
The good man’s daughter hastened home again betimes, but the King’s son had smeared the door-posts with tar, and the girl’s golden circlet stuck to it.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: hasten, smear, stick · To what, where: son, golden circlet, circlet
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hastened | nsubj |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 9 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smeared | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 smeared | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smeared | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 smeared | aux |
| 17 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hastened | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 posts | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 posts | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 door | punct |
| 21 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smeared | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tar | case |
| 23 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 posts | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 circlet | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 circlet | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 circlet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 girl | case |
| 29 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 circlet | amod |
| 30 | circlet | circlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smeared | conj |
| 31 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 circlet | acl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stuck | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the good man's daughter | again | betimes, home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | smear | past · perfect · passive | the King's son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stick | participle | the girl's golden circlet not said here | circlet | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |
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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