The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 134
So Delicia took off the ugly cap, and shook out all her fair shining hair, and bathed her hands and face in clear water from the nearest spring till her cheeks were like roses, and when she was adorned with the diamonds and the splendid robe the Fairy had given her, she looked the most beautiful Princess in the world, and the Fairy with great delight cried:
Who acts: Delicia, cheeks, fairy · What happens: take off, shake out, shine, bath, be, adorn · To what, where: ugly cap, hands, clear water, Delicia, Fairy, beautiful Princess
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Delicia, cheeks, fairy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cap | det |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cap | amod |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 shook | compound:prt |
| 12 | all | all | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 hair | amod |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bathed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bathed | cc |
| 19 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bathed | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 face | cc |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hands | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 water | amod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bathed | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 spring | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spring | det |
| 29 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 spring | amod |
| 30 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bathed | obl |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 roses | mark |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 roses | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 roses | cop |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 roses | case |
| 36 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bathed | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 adorned | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 adorned | cc |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 adorned | advmod |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 adorned | aux:pass |
| 42 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 diamonds | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 diamonds | det |
| 45 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 adorned | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 robe | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 robe | det |
| 48 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 robe | amod |
| 49 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 diamonds | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Fairy | det |
| 51 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 given | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 given | aux |
| 53 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 adorned | advcl |
| 54 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 given | obj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 looked | punct |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 looked | nsubj |
| 57 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 Princess | det |
| 59 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 60 beautiful | advmod |
| 60 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 Princess | amod |
| 61 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 looked | obj |
| 62 | in | in | ADP | _ | 64 world | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 world | det |
| 64 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 Princess | nmod |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 cried | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 72 cried | cc |
| 67 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 Fairy | det |
| 68 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 cried | nsubj |
| 69 | with | with | ADP | _ | 71 delight | case |
| 70 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 71 delight | amod |
| 71 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 Fairy | nmod |
| 72 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 73 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 72 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Delicia | the ugly cap | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake out | past | Delicia not said here | all Delicia's fair shining hair | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bath | past | Delicia not said here | Delicia's hands and face | clear water | spring | tree rules | ||
| 5 | is | past | Delicia's cheeks | like roses | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | adorn | past · passive | Delicia | with the diamonds and the splendid robe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Fairy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | |||||
| 8 | look | past | fairy | the beautiful Princess | the world | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Attribute | |||
| 9 | cry speech: express | past | the Fairy with great delight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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