The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 20
Graciosa set out, wearing her little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock, but even in this disguise she was so beautiful that all the passers-by wondered who she could be.
Who acts: Graciosa, disguise · What happens: set out, wear, be, wonder · To what, where: little cap, passers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, disguise), 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 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wearing | punct |
| 5 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 set | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cap | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cap | amod |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wearing | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shoes | cc |
| 10 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoes | amod |
| 11 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cap | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 frock | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 frock | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 frock | amod |
| 15 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 frock | compound |
| 16 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cap | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 disguise | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 disguise | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 disguise | det |
| 22 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 set | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 wondered | mark |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 passers | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 passers | det |
| 30 | passers | passer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wondered | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wondered | punct |
| 32 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 33 wondered | mark |
| 33 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 beautiful | advcl |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 be | nsubj |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 be | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 be | aux |
| 37 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wondered | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Graciosa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | Graciosa not said here | Graciosa's little cap and wooden shoes and the old cotton frock | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | this disguise | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | participle · passive | all passers | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | can | could | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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