The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 47
She went to the rock and knocked, whereupon out came the man and gave her a gown which was much more magnificent than the first.
Who acts: Kari, man, gown · What happens: go, knock, come, give, be · To what, where: rock, gown, Kari
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, man, gown), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 rock | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rock | det |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knocked | cc |
| 7 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whereupon | punct |
| 9 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 whereupon | compound:prt |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knocked | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gown | det |
| 18 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 magnificent | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 magnificent | cop |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 magnificent | advmod |
| 23 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gown | acl:relcl |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 first | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 first | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 magnificent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Kari | the rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | Kari not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the man | whereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Kari not said here | a gown | Kari | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient gown=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | a gown | than the first; magnificent property | tree rules |
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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