The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 21

When she was going upstairs her wooden gown made such a clatter that the Prince came out and said, ‘What sort of a creature may you be?’

Who acts: Kari, Prince · What happens: go, make, come out, say, sort · To what, where: wooden gown, clatter, that, creature · 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 (Kari, Prince), 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	4 going	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 made	advcl
5	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gown	nmod:poss
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gown	amod
8	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 clatter	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 clatter	det
12	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 came	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Prince	det
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 be	advcl
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sort	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 sort	punct
22	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	23 sort	det
23	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 creature	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 creature	det
26	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 be	nsubj
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 clatter	acl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Kari	Kari's wooden gown	upstairs property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gown=Theme
2	make	past		such clatter		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clatter=Product
3	come out	past	the Prince	that	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the Prince not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	sort			a creature		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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