The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 89
Her bonnet was here and her shoes there, her face was scratched, and her fine clothes were covered with mud.
Who acts: bonnet · What happens: be, scratch, cover · To what, where: face, fine clothes
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 (bonnet), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bonnet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 there | nsubj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 here | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 scratched | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 scratched | aux:pass |
| 13 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 here | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 covered | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clothes | amod |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 covered | aux:pass |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 here | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 mud | case |
| 22 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 covered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | duchess's bonnet | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scratch | past · passive | duchess's face | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | duchess's fine clothes | with mud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mud=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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