The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 81
The man’s daughter held her peace all the time, and busied herself about the hearth.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: hold, busy, pacify · To what, where: peace, daughter
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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 man | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 peace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 busied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 busied | cc |
| 13 | busied | busy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 busied | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 hearth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearth | det |
| 17 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 busied | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the man's daughter | daughter's peace | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | |||
| 2 | busy | past | the man's daughter not said here | daughter | about the hearth | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pacify | daughter | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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