The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 76
After a long, long while came Kari Woodengown’s wicked stepmother, with her daughter too, and the shoe fitted her.
Who acts: shoe · What happens: come, fit · To what, where: wicked stepmother, stepmother
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 (shoe), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 long | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 long | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | advcl |
| 8 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Woodengown | Woodengown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kari | flat |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Kari | case |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stepmother | amod |
| 12 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 daughter | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fitted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fitted | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shoe | det |
| 21 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fitted | nsubj |
| 22 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fitted | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Kari's wicked stepmother | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stepmother=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fit | past | the shoe | stepmother | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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