The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 96
She reached the birch tree, and laying aside her finery, she said:
Who acts: daughter · What happens: reach, lay, say · To what, where: birch tree, finery · 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 8 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 9 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 8 laying | advmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 finery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | finery | finery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laying | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | daughter | the birch tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | gerund | daughter not said here | daughter's finery | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finery=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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