The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 216
And, arranging her dress, she seated herself on the grass to await Désiré.
Who acts: bride · What happens: arrange, seat, await · To what, where: dress, bride, grass, Désiré
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seated | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranging | punct |
| 3 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 seated | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arranging | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranging | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seated | nsubj |
| 8 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 seated | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seated | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 await | mark |
| 14 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seated | advcl |
| 15 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 await | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | gerund | bride not said here | bride's dress | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Product | ||||
| 2 | seat | past | bride | bride | the grass | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | |||
| 3 | await | to-infinitive | bride not said here | Désiré | tree rules |
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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