The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 186
So she walked first, looking very serious and dignified, and wearing a dress the train of which was at least ten ells long.
Who acts: Delicia · What happens: walk, look, wear, be · To what, where: dress
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), 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 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 serious | advmod |
| 8 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dignified | cc |
| 10 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 serious | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wearing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wearing | cc |
| 13 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dress | det |
| 15 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wearing | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 train | det |
| 17 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wearing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 long | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 long | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 least | case |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 ten | nmod |
| 23 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ells | nummod |
| 24 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 long | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 train | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Delicia | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Delicia not said here | serious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | Delicia not said here | a dress | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | of the train; ten ells obl:unmarked; long 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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