The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 12
Then she put on the wooden gown, and walked to the King’s palace.
Who acts: stick · What happens: put, walk · To what, where: wooden gown
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stick), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 gown | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gown | det |
| 6 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gown | amod |
| 7 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | stick | the wooden gown | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on gown=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | past | stick not said here | to the King's palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |
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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