The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 114

When the sisters went down she stayed a little behind and said to the cow-boy: ‘Where does this branch come from?’

Who acts: sisters, Lina, branch · What happens: go down, stay, say, come · To what, where: little behind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, Lina, branch), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stayed	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 behind	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 behind	amod
10	behind	behind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stayed	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 boy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boy	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 cow	punct
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
20	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 come	advmod
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 branch	det
23	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	24 come	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the sisters		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	stay	past	Lina	a little behind		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme behind=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Lina not said here		to the cow boy	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to boy=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	come	present · do-support	this branch			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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