The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 193
‘Surely I can let the honest woman in,’ thought Snowdrop; so she unbarred the door and bought the pretty lace.
Who acts: I, SNOWDROP · What happens: let in, think, unbar, buy · To what, where: honest woman, Snowdrop, door, pretty lace · 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 (I, SNOWDROP), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 let | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 unbarred | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 unbarred | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 unbarred | nsubj |
| 17 | unbarred | unbar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unbarred | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bought | cc |
| 21 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 unbarred | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lace | det |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lace | amod |
| 24 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bought | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in | can | I | the honest woman | surely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Snowdrop | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | unbar | past | SNOWDROP | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy | past | SNOWDROP not said here | the pretty lace | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=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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