The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 17
The old dame had such large teeth that the girl felt frightened and wanted to run away, but the old woman called after her:
Who acts: old dame, girl · What happens: have, feel, frighten, want, run away, call · To what, where: such large teeth, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old dame, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dame | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dame | amod |
| 3 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 felt | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | advcl |
| 12 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 woman | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 woman | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 woman | acl |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old dame | such large teeth | the old woman obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the girl | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | the girl not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | want | past | the girl not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | the old woman not said here | after girl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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