The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 3

Graciosa set to work at once, but before she had taken out a dozen feathers she found that it was perfectly impossible to know one from another.

Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: set, work, take out, find, be, know · To what, where: dozen feathers, one, another · 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	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 set	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 work	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taken	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 taken	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 taken	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taken	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 set	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 taken	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dozen	det
15	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 feathers	nummod
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feathers	acl:relcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 impossible	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 impossible	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 impossible	cop
22	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	23 impossible	advmod
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 found	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 know	mark
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 impossible	csubj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 know	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 another	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past	Graciosa				tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
3	take out	past · perfect	Graciosa	dozen feathers			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
4	find	past	Graciosa	dozen feathers not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic
5	is	past				impossible, perfectly property	tree rules
6	know	to-infinitive		one	another		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=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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