The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 23
At last she discovered that she was homesick, so she went to Mother Holle and said:
Who acts: girl · What happens: discover, be, go, say · To what, where: last, Mother · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 discovered | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 discovered | nsubj |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 homesick | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 homesick | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 homesick | cop |
| 8 | homesick | homesick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 discovered | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Mother | case |
| 14 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | Holle | Holle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mother | flat |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | girl | last | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | girl | homesick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | girl | Mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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