The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 48

She took no notice of them, and without as much as ‘By your leave,’ or ‘With your leave,’ she flounced into the room, sat herself down at the fire, and began to eat her bread and butter and cakes.

Who acts: first · What happens: take, flounce, sit down, begin, eat, notice · To what, where: notice, room, first, fire, bread, girls

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 notice	det
4	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 notice	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 much	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 much	cc
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 much	case
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
12	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 leave	case
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 as	punct
14	By	by	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 leave	nmod:poss
16	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 much	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 flounced	cc
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 flounced	punct
21	With	with	ADP	_	23 leave	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 leave	nmod:poss
23	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flounced	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flounced	nsubj
27	flounced	flounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ’	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 room	det
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flounced	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flounced	conj
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 sat	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 sat	compound:prt
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sat	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 began	cc
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flounced	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 eat	mark
42	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bread	nmod:poss
44	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 eat	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 butter	cc
46	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bread	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cakes	cc
48	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bread	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	first	no notice of girls			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	flounce	past	first		the room	with your leave	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	sit down	past	first not said here	first	the fire		tree rules
4	begin	past	first not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	first not said here	first's bread and butter and cakes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
6	notice			girls = girl			nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/48/