The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 197

Snowdrop, suspecting no evil, stood before her and let her lace her bodice up, but the old woman laced her so quickly and so tightly that it took Snowdrop’s breath away, and she fell down dead.

Who acts: Snowdrop, old woman, it, woman · What happens: suspect, stand, let, lace up, lace, take · To what, where: evil, SNOWDROP, bodice, breath

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 (Snowdrop, old woman, it, woman), 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	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suspecting	punct
3	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Snowdrop	acl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evil	det
5	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suspecting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Snowdrop	punct
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	lace	lace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bodice	nmod:poss
15	bodice	bodice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lace	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	13 lace	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laced	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 laced	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laced	nsubj
22	laced	lace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laced	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 quickly	advmod
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	22 laced	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 tightly	advmod
28	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	31 took	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 took	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laced	conj
32	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 breath	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Snowdrop	case
34	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	31 took	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fell	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fell	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fell	nsubj
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
40	down	down	ADV	_	39 fell	advmod
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fell	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suspect	gerund	Snowdrop not said here	no evil			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent evil=Attribute
2	stand	past	Snowdrop		before mother		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
3	let	infinitive	Snowdrop not said here	SNOWDROP			tree rules
4	lace up	infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here	SNOWDROP's bodice			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bodice=Patient
5	lace	past	the old woman	SNOWDROP		quickly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	take	past	it	Snowdrop's breath		away, tightly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
7	fall down	past	woman			dead, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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