The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 29

They called out to her to enter, so she stepped in and sat down on a seat by the fire, wishing to warm herself and eat her breakfast.

Who acts: dwarfs, stepmother · What happens: call out, enter, step in, sit down, wish, warm · To what, where: stepmother, seat, breakfast

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 (dwarfs, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 enter	mark
7	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stepped	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 stepped	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stepped	nsubj
11	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 stepped	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stepped	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 seat	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 seat	det
18	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wishing	punct
23	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sat	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 warm	mark
25	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wishing	xcomp
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 warm	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eat	cc
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 warm	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 breakfast	nmod:poss
30	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	dwarfs = dwarf		stepmother			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	enter	to-infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	step in	past	stepmother					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	past	stepmother not said here			a seat	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location
5	wish	gerund	stepmother not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	warm not said to happen	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here	stepmother				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
7	eat	infinitive	stepmother not said here	stepmother's breakfast				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=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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