The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 55
When she saw that they did not mean to give her anything, she left the house in no amiable frame of mind.
Who acts: first, brambles · What happens: see, not mean, give, leave · To what, where: anything, house, amiable frame · 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, brambles), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 mean | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 mean | advmod |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mean | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 anything | nmod:poss |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 frame | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 frame | det |
| 20 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 frame | amod |
| 21 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 frame | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | first | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not mean | past · do-support | brambles = bramble | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | brambles = bramble not said here | anything | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | first | the house | no amiable frame of mind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in frame=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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