The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 95
Now no one knew any more than before about the good man’s daughter, no one knew whence she came; but the Prince had had the threshold smeared with tar, and as she fled her gold slippers stuck to it.
Who acts: one, daughter, Prince, threshold, gold · What happens: know, come, have, smear, flee, slipper · 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 (one, daughter, Prince, threshold), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 knew | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 knew | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 came | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | aux |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 threshold | det |
| 29 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 smeared | nsubj |
| 30 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | ccomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 tar | case |
| 32 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 smeared | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fled | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fled | cc |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 fled | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fled | nsubj |
| 37 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 gold | nmod:poss |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slippers | nsubj |
| 40 | slippers | slipper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 fled | ccomp |
| 41 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 slippers | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stuck | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | no one | now | about the good man's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about daughter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past | daughter | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past · perfect | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | smear | past | the threshold | with tar | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | flee | past | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | slipper | present | daughter's gold | stuck property | tree rules |
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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