The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 6
Her real name was Blanchette, but she was more often called Little Golden-hood, on account of a wonderful little cloak with a hood, gold- and fire-coloured, which she always had on.
Who acts: real name, Blanchette, girl · What happens: be, call, have on, name, account · To what, where: Blanchette, girl, wonderful little cloak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (real name, Blanchette, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 name | amod |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Blanchette | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Blanchette | cop |
| 5 | Blanchette | Blanchette | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 often | advmod |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Blanchette | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hood | amod |
| 14 | Golden | Golden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hood | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Golden | punct |
| 16 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 account | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 account | case |
| 19 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hood | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cloak | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cloak | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cloak | amod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cloak | amod |
| 24 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 account | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 hood | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hood | det |
| 27 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cloak | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 coloured | punct |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coloured | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 coloured | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 coloured | cc |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coloured | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 fire | punct |
| 34 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hood | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 had | obj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 39 had | advmod |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 coloured | parataxis |
| 40 | on | on | ADV | _ | 39 had | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Blanchette | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl's real name | Blanchette | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Blanchette not said here | girl | often property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have on | past | girl | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | girl | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | account | a wonderful little cloak with a hood | nom account «communication 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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