The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 76
When her stepmother heard of her good fortune she came to the palace with her daughter by way of paying a call, and took up her abode there.
Who acts: stepmother, way · What happens: hear, come, pay, take up · To what, where: palace, call, abode
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 (stepmother, way), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fortune | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 palace | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 paying | mark |
| 20 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 call | det |
| 22 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 paying | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 took | compound:prt |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 abode | nmod:poss |
| 28 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 took | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Queen's stepmother | of Queen's good fortune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fortune=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | stepmother | the palace with Queen's daughter | by way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | pay | gerund | way not said here | a call | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Asset | ||||
| 4 | take up | past | stepmother not said here | Queen's abode | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme |
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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