The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 13
When she got there she went into the kitchen and begged for a place, saying that her name was Kari Woodengown.
Who acts: stick, name · What happens: get, go, beg, say, be, name · To what, where: kitchen, Kari · Speech: someone speaks here
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, name), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 kitchen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kitchen | det |
| 9 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 begged | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 Kari | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Kari | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Kari | cop |
| 21 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saying | obj |
| 22 | Woodengown | Woodengown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Kari | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | stick | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | stick | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | stick not said here | for a place | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | stick not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | stick's name | Kari | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | stick | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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