The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 5
There was once a little peasant girl, pretty and nice as a star in its season.
Who acts: little peasant girl · What happens: be
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 (little peasant girl), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 6 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nice | punct |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 11 nice | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nice | cc |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 star | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 star | det |
| 14 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nice | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 season | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 season | nmod:poss |
| 17 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 star | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little peasant girl | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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