The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 34
When she had finished her bread they gave her a broom and told her to sweep away the snow from the back door.
Who acts: stepmother, dwarfs · What happens: finish, give, tell, sweep away · To what, where: bread, broom, stepmother, snow, back door · 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 (stepmother, dwarfs), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gave | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bread | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 broom | det |
| 11 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sweep | mark |
| 16 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 sweep | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snow | det |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sweep | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | compound |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sweep | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | stepmother | stepmother's bread | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bread=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | past | dwarfs = dwarf | a broom | stepmother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient broom=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | stepmother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sweep away not said to happen | to-infinitive | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | the snow | the back door | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snow=Theme from door=Trajectory |
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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