The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 14
So she did this, and took the cloth and spread it out upon the grass, and then it was covered with the daintiest dishes that any one could desire, and there was wine, and mead, and cake.
Who acts: ear, one · What happens: do, take, spread out, cover, desire, be · To what, where: this, cloth, grass, daintiest dishes, mead
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 mead | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloth | det |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spread | cc |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spread | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 spread | compound:prt |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grass | det |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 covered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 covered | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 covered | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 covered | aux:pass |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 took | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dishes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dishes | det |
| 25 | daintiest | dainty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 dishes | amod |
| 26 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 desire | obj |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 desire | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 desire | aux |
| 31 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dishes | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 was | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 was | cc |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 mead | cop |
| 36 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 was | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mead | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 mead | cc |
| 39 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 cake | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 cake | cc |
| 42 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mead | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 mead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ear | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | past | ear not said here | the cloth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread out | past | ear not said here | cloth | the grass | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon grass=Destination | |||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | cloth | then | with the daintiest dishes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dish=Theme | |||
| 5 | desire | could | any one | the daintiest dishes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | mead and cake | tree rules |
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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