The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 66
When she was in the act of wringing out the yarn a magnificent carriage passed, and the King sat inside.
Who acts: stepdaughter, act, King · What happens: be, wring out, pass, sit · To what, where: act, yarn, magnificent carriage
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, act, King), 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 | 6 act | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 act | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 act | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 act | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 act | det |
| 6 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 wringing | mark |
| 8 | wringing | wring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 act | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 wringing | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 yarn | det |
| 11 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wringing | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 carriage | det |
| 13 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 carriage | amod |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wringing | obj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 carriage | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 passed | advcl |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 20 sat | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | stepdaughter | the act | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wring out | gerund | the act not said here | the yarn | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme carriage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | a magnificent carriage not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | the King | inside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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