The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 31
As she was walking out of church the Prince followed her and shut the church door after her, and thus he kept one of her gloves in his hand.
Who acts: daughter, Prince · What happens: walk out, follow, shut, keep · To what, where: church, daughter, church door, one
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 (daughter, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 walking | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 followed | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shut | cc |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obj |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shut | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kept | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kept | cc |
| 21 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 kept | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 kept | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gloves | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gloves | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk out | past · progressive | daughter | church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | daughter | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shut | past | the church door | after daughter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | Prince | one of daughter's gloves in Prince's hand | thus property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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