The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 28
She wished them good-day, and knocked modestly at the door.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: wish, knock · To what, where: dwarfs
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wished | obj |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knocked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knocked | cc |
| 9 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wished | parataxis |
| 10 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 9 knocked | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knocked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | stepmother | dwarfs = dwarf | day | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 2 | knock | past | at the door; modestly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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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