The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 220
Poor Snowdrop thought no evil, but hardly had the comb touched her hair than the poison worked and she fell down unconscious.
Who acts: Poor Snowdrop, comb, poison · What happens: think, have, touch, work, fall down · To what, where: evil, hair
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 (Poor Snowdrop, comb, poison), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Snowdrop | amod |
| 2 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 evil | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 comb | det |
| 11 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | ccomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | obj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 worked | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poison | det |
| 17 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worked | nsubj |
| 18 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 worked | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 23 | unconscious | unconscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Poor Snowdrop | no evil | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Poor Snowdrop not said here | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | the comb | SNOWDROP's hair | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | past | the poison | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall down | past | poison | down, unconscious 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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