The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 35
Like her sister she came to the beautiful meadow, and followed the same path.
Who acts: girl · What happens: come, follow · To what, where: beautiful meadow, same path
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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 sister | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 meadow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meadow | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meadow | amod |
| 9 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 path | amod |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | girl | the beautiful meadow | like girl's sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | girl not said here | the same path | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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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