The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 42

In the meantime the good Blanchette went quietly on her way, as little girls do, amusing herself here and there by picking Easter daisies, watching the little birds making their nests, and running after the butterflies which fluttered in the sunshine.

Who acts: good Blanchette, little girls, little birds, butterflies · What happens: go, do, amusing, pick, watch, make · To what, where: meantime, girl, Easter daisies, little birds, nests, sunshine

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 (good Blanchette, little girls, little birds, butterflies), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Blanchette	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Blanchette	amod
6	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 amusing	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girls	amod
15	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 amusing	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
18	amusing	amusing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	conj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 amusing	obj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 amusing	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 there	cc
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 here	conj
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 picking	mark
24	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 amusing	advcl
25	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 daisies	compound
26	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 picking	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 watching	punct
28	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 picking	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 birds	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 birds	amod
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 watching	obj
32	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 birds	acl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nests	nmod:poss
34	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 making	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 running	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 running	cc
37	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 picking	conj
38	after	after	ADP	_	40 butterflies	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 butterflies	det
40	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 running	obl
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 fluttered	nsubj
42	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 butterflies	acl:relcl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 sunshine	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sunshine	det
45	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fluttered	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the good Blanchette		the meantime		on Blanchette's way; quietly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location
2	do	present	little girls					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	amusing	infinitive	the good Blanchette not said here	girl	here			tree rules
4	pick	gerund	the good Blanchette not said here	Easter daisies				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daisy=Patient
5	watch	gerund	the good Blanchette not said here	the little birds				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
6	make	gerund	the little birds not said here	birds's nests				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
7	run	gerund	the good Blanchette not said here			after the butterflies		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	flutter	past	the butterflies		the sunshine			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location

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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