The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 87
Kari took up the shoe, put her foot into it as easily as possible, and then threw off her wooden gown, and there she stood in the golden gown which flashed like rays of sunshine, and on her other foot she had the fellow to the gold shoe.
Who acts: Kari, golden gown · What happens: take up, put, throw off, stand, flash, have · To what, where: shoe, foot, wooden gown, golden gown, fellow, other foot
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, golden 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 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shoe | det |
| 5 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 easily | advmod |
| 13 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 possible | mark |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 easily | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 threw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 threw | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 threw | advmod |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 gown | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 gown | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gown | amod |
| 23 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 threw | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stood | cc |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 stood | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 gown | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gown | det |
| 31 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gown | amod |
| 32 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 flashed | nsubj |
| 34 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gown | acl:relcl |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 rays | case |
| 36 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 flashed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 sunshine | case |
| 38 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rays | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 had | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 had | cc |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 foot | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 foot | nmod:poss |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 foot | amod |
| 44 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obl |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 had | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 fellow | det |
| 48 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 shoe | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 shoe | det |
| 51 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 shoe | compound |
| 52 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 had | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Kari | the shoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Kari not said here | Kari's foot | foot | easily property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | ||
| 3 | throw off | past | Kari not said here | Kari's wooden gown | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand | past | Kari | the golden gown; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gown=Location | ||||
| 5 | flash | past | the golden gown | like rays of sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Kari | the fellow | Kari's other foot | to the gold shoe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Patient | ||
| 7 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon 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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