The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 184
Then the Fairy showed her all the wonderful dresses and jewels she had brought for her, and said:
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: show, bring, say · To what, where: Delicia, wonderful dresses · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 showed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 dresses | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dresses | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dresses | amod |
| 9 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showed | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jewels | cc |
| 11 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dresses | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 dresses | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the Fairy | Delicia | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect | fairy | all wonderful dresses and jewels not said here | for Delicia | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | 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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