The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 175
But during the day the girl was left quite alone, so the good Dwarfs warned her, saying:
Who acts: good Dwarfs · What happens: leave, warn, say · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good Dwarfs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 alone | advmod |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 left | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 warned | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dwarfs | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Dwarfs | amod |
| 15 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 warned | nsubj |
| 16 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warned | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 warned | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the girl | day | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | the good Dwarfs | girl | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the good Dwarfs 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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