The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 28
But presently, when she was rested and wished to go on her way, she found that, do what she would, she could not get them back into their box.
Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: rest, wish, go, find, do, not get · To what, where: Graciosa, way, games · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 rested | cc |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 rested | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rested | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 rested | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rested | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rested | aux:pass |
| 7 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rested | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rested | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 get | advcl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 would | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 get | advmod |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | ccomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 get | obj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 box | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 box | nmod:poss |
| 33 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 back | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · passive | Graciosa | presently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | participle | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Graciosa's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||||
| 4 | find | past | Graciosa | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | Graciosa not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not get | could | Graciosa | games = game | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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