The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 65
Her stepdaughter obeyed as usual, and went and broke a hole in the ice.
Who acts: stepdaughter · What happens: obey, go, break · To what, where: hole, ice
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 (stepdaughter), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 usual | case |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obeyed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 broke | cc |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ice | det |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | woman's stepdaughter | as usual | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | break | past | a hole | the ice | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=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.
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