The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 37

And she was very careful, and bent herself out of the way of the branches, and put them aside with her hands; but it was so thickly wooded that it was all but impossible to get forward, and do what she might, she somehow or other tore off a leaf which got into her hand.

Who acts: daughter, way, it, leaf · What happens: be, bend, put, wood, get, do · To what, where: daughter, way, branches, hand

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 (daughter, way, it, leaf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 careful	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 careful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 careful	advmod
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bent	cc
8	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	advcl
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 bent	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bent	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 branches	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 branches	det
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 way	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	obj
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	19 put	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thickly	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 thickly	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thickly	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thickly	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 thickly	advmod
30	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 careful	conj
31	wooded	wood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thickly	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 impossible	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 impossible	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 impossible	cop
35	all	all	ADV	_	37 impossible	advmod
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 impossible	cc
37	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wooded	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 get	mark
39	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 impossible	csubj
40	forward	forward	ADV	_	39 get	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 do	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 do	cc
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thickly	conj
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 do	obj
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 might	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 what	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 somehow	punct
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 somehow	nsubj
49	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	43 do	advmod
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 tore	cc
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tore	amod
52	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 somehow	conj
53	off	off	ADP	_	55 leaf	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 leaf	det
55	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 do	obl
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 got	nsubj
57	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 leaf	acl:relcl
58	into	into	ADP	_	60 hand	case
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 hand	nmod:poss
60	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 got	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughter			careful property	tree rules
2	bend	past	daughter not said here	daughter	the way of the branches		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme out way=Location
3	put	infinitive	daughter not said here	branches = branch		with daughter's hands; aside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	is	past	way			thickly property	tree rules
5	wood	past	way not said here				tree rules
6	is	past	it			all, impossible property	tree rules
7	get	to-infinitive				forward property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	do	infinitive	way not said here			off a leaf; somehow property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
9	get	past	a leaf		daughter's hand		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hand=Destination

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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