The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 36
When she reached the baker’s oven the bread called out as before:
Who acts: girl · What happens: reach, call out · To what, where: oven, bread
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baker | det |
| 5 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 oven | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 baker | case |
| 7 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bread | det |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bread | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | girl | the baker's oven | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent oven=Beneficiary bread=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the bread not said here | before property | 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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