The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 72
If she did but turn it over to see where to begin, she broke a thousand threads, and not one could she disentangle.
Who acts: Princess, one · What happens: turn over, see, begin, break, not disentangle · To what, where: door, thousand threads · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, one), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 turn | cc |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 broke | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 turn | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 begin | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 begin | mark |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 see | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 threads | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 threads | nummod |
| 18 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broke | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 disentangle | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 disentangle | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 disentangle | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 disentangle | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 disentangle | aux |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 disentangle | nsubj |
| 25 | disentangle | disentangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 broke | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Princess | door | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | begin | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | break | past | Princess | a thousand threads | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not disentangle | could | one | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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