The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 50
Meanwhile the Duchess Grumbly was also occupied in attiring herself.
Who acts: Duchess Grumbly · What happens: be, attire · To what, where: Grumbly
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess Grumbly), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 occupied | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Grumbly | det |
| 3 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Grumbly | compound |
| 4 | Grumbly | Grumbly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 occupied | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 occupied | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 occupied | advmod |
| 7 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 attiring | mark |
| 9 | attiring | attire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 occupied | advcl |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 attiring | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Duchess Grumbly | meanwhile, occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attire | gerund | the Duchess Grumbly not said here | Grumbly | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
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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