The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 79

Thereupon the Grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed.

Who acts: Grandmother · What happens: hasten, dress, tremble · To what, where: poor Blanchette, 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 (Grandmother), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	4 hastened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grandmother	det
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hastened	nsubj
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dress	mark
6	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hastened	xcomp
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Blanchette	amod
8	Blanchette	Blanchette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dress	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trembling	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 trembling	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trembling	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 trembling	advmod
13	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dress	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 fear	case
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trembling	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 bed	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bed	det
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trembling	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	the Grandmother				thereupon property	tree rules
2	dress	to-infinitive	the Grandmother not said here	poor Blanchette				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanchette=Patient
3	tremble	past · progressive			the bed	still	with fear	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=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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