The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 42

Then she told what had happened to her in the wood, and at every word pieces of gold dropped from her mouth, so that the room was soon covered with them.

Who acts: first · What happens: tell, happen, drop, cover · To what, where: word pieces, first, wood, mouth, room · 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), 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 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happened	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pieces	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pieces	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 pieces	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pieces	compound
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 gold	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pieces	nmod
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pieces	acl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 mouth	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dropped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 covered	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 covered	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 covered	aux:pass
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 covered	advmod
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	first			every word pieces of gold	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect			first	the wood			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
3	drop	participle		every word pieces of gold not said here		first's mouth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from mouth=Trajectory
4	cover	past · passive		the room				with strawberries = strawberry; soon property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme

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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