The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 39
The old woman had risen early to sell herbs in the town, and she had gone off in such haste that she had left her bed unmade, with her great night-cap on the pillow.
Who acts: old woman, woman, bed · What happens: rise, sell, go off, leave, unmake · To what, where: herbs, town, such haste, bed
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, bed), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 risen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 risen | aux |
| 5 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 risen | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sell | mark |
| 8 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 risen | advcl |
| 9 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sell | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gone | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | aux |
| 17 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 risen | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 gone | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 haste | case |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 haste | amod |
| 21 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 left | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 gone | advcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bed | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obj |
| 28 | unmade | unmake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 left | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cap | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 cap | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 cap | nmod:poss |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cap | amod |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cap | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 night | punct |
| 35 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unmade | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 pillow | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 pillow | det |
| 38 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cap | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect | the old woman | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | herbs | the town | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | |||
| 3 | go off | past · perfect | woman | such haste | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in haste=Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | woman | woman's bed | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | unmake | participle | woman's bed not said here | with woman's great night cap on the pillow | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cap=Instrument |
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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