The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 64

She went away to the rock and knocked at it with the stick, and then the man came out and gave her a gown which was very much more magnificent than either of the others.

Who acts: Kari, man, gown · What happens: go away, knock, come out, 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	away	away	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 knocked	cc
8	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knocked	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 stick	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stick	det
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knocked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 came	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 gown	det
25	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 magnificent	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 magnificent	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 magnificent	advmod
31	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gown	acl:relcl
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 either	case
33	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	31 magnificent	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 others	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 others	det
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 either	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	Kari			the rock		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
2	knock	past	Kari not said here					with the stick; at rock	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient with stick=Instrument
3	come out	past	the man				then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	give	past	the man 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 either; 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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