The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 15
She did as she was asked, and shook the tree till the apples fell like rain and none were left hanging.
Who acts: girl, apples, none · What happens: do, ask, shake, fall, leave, hang · To what, where: girl, tree, none
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (girl, apples, none), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 asked | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | aux:pass |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shook | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shook | cc |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shook | obj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 fell | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 apples | det |
| 14 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shook | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 rain | case |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux:pass |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 fell | conj |
| 22 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 left | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | girl not said here | the tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the apples | like rain | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · passive | none | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | none not said here | 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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