The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 200

They lifted her up tenderly, and when they saw how tightly laced she was they cut the lace in two, and she began to breathe a little and gradually came back to life.

Who acts: dwarfs, SNOWDROP · What happens: lift up, see, lace, be, begin, breathe · To what, where: SNOWDROP, little, life

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 (dwarfs, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 lifted	compound:prt
5	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lifted	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 laced	advmod
12	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	13 laced	advmod
13	laced	lace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 saw	xcomp
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cut	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cut	cop
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cut	nsubj
17	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laced	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lace	det
19	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 two	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 lace	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 breathe	mark
27	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 little	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breathe	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
31	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 began	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 life	case
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	dwarfs = dwarf	SNOWDROP		tenderly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lace	participle	dwarfs = dwarf not said here			tightly property	tree rules
4	is	past	SNOWDROP			cut property	tree rules
5	begin	past	SNOWDROP				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	breathe	to-infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here	a little			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
7	come back	past	SNOWDROP not said here		life	gradually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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