The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 55
Graciosa did not hesitate an instant, but passed through into a charming garden.
Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: not hesitate, pass through · To what, where: instant, charming garden
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 | 4 hesitate | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hesitate | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hesitate | advmod |
| 4 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 instant | det |
| 6 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hesitate | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 passed | cc |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hesitate | parataxis |
| 10 | through | through | ADV | _ | 9 passed | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | compound |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hesitate | past · do-support | Graciosa | a instant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass through | past | a charming garden | through property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location |
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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