The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 46
The girl however left her no peace, so she was forced at last to give in, but she insisted on her putting on a beautiful fur cloak, and she gave her bread and butter and cakes to eat on the way.
Who acts: girl, first · What happens: leave, force, give in, insist, put, give · To what, where: peace, first, last, beautiful fur cloak, bread, way
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 (girl, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 peace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 peace | det |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forced | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 forced | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forced | aux:pass |
| 12 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forced | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 give | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 insisted | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 insisted | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 insisted | nsubj |
| 21 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 24 putting | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 putting | nmod:poss |
| 24 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 insisted | advcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 cloak | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cloak | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cloak | amod |
| 28 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cloak | compound |
| 29 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 putting | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gave | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gave | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | nsubj |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bread | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 butter | cc |
| 37 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bread | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cakes | cc |
| 39 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bread | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 eat | mark |
| 41 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 gave | advcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 way | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 way | det |
| 44 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 eat | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the girl | first's peace | however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | |||
| 2 | force | past · passive | first | last | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give in | to-infinitive | first not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | insist speech: other | past | first | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put | gerund | first not said here | a beautiful fur cloak | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 6 | give | past | first | first's bread and butter and cakes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eat | to-infinitive | first not said here | the way | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | pacify | first | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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