The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 41
When she walked in and said; Good evening,’ a piece of gold fell out of her mouth.
Who acts: first, piece · What happens: walk in, say, fall · To what, where: mouth · 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 (first, piece), 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 | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 evening | punct |
| 8 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 evening | amod |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 piece | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in | past | first | evening | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | first not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | ' piece of gold | first's mouth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location |
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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