The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 51

Mother Holle led her to the same door as she had done her sister, but when she passed through it, instead of the gold rain a kettle full of pitch came showering over her.

Who acts: Mother, girl, gold rain · What happens: lead, do, pass, come, shower · To what, where: girl, same door, sister, door

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 (Mother, girl, gold rain), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
2	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mother	appos
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 led	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 passed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 passed	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 passed	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	nsubj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	parataxis
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
23	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	33 came	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 instead	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rain	det
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rain	compound
27	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 kettle	det
29	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kettle	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 pitch	case
32	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	obl
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 passed	conj
34	showering	shower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 came	advcl
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 showering	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Mother	girl	the same door		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to door=Destination
2	do	past · perfect	girl	girl's sister			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Eventuality
3	pass	past	girl		door		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location
4	come	past	the gold rain				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shower	gerund	the gold rain not said here			over girl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over she=Destination

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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