The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 17
And then she washed up, and did it very tidily.
Who acts: stick · What happens: wash up, do · To what, where: place
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 washed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 washed | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 washed | nsubj |
| 4 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 washed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washed | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | obj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 tidily | advmod |
| 11 | tidily | tidily | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash up | past | stick | then | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past | stick not said here | place | tidily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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