The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 32
Then they asked her what she was doing in the depths of winter in her thin dress.
Who acts: dwarfs, stepmother · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: stepmother, depths · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 doing | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doing | aux |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 depths | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 depths | det |
| 11 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 doing | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 winter | case |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 depths | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dress | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dress | amod |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | dwarfs = dwarf | stepmother | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | past · progressive | stepmother | the depths of winter | in stepmother's thin dress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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