The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 212
So she went over the seven hills till she reached the house of the seven Dwarfs, and knocking at the door she called out:
Who acts: SNOWDROP · What happens: go, reach, knock, call out · To what, where: seven hills, house, door
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hills | nummod |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Dwarfs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dwarfs | det |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Dwarfs | nummod |
| 16 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 house | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knocking | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knocking | cc |
| 19 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knocking | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 door | acl:relcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 called | compound:prt |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | SNOWDROP | the seven hills | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | SNOWDROP | the house of the seven Dwarfs | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | SNOWDROP not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | past | SNOWDROP | the door not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Recipient |
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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