The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 25
The girl was so obedient that she put on the paper dress and set out with her little basket.
Who acts: girl, stepmother · What happens: be, put, set out · To what, where: paper dress
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, stepmother), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obedient | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obedient | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 obedient | advmod |
| 5 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 put | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obedient | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 dress | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dress | det |
| 11 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dress | compound |
| 12 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 basket | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 basket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 basket | amod |
| 19 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obedient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | obedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | past | stepmother | the paper dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | stepmother not said here | with stepmother's little basket | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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