The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 241

Snowdrop longed to eat the tempting fruit, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating it herself, she couldn’t resist the temptation any longer, and stretching out her hand she took the poisonous half.

Who acts: Snowdrop, peasant woman · What happens: long, eat, see, not resist, stretch out, take · To what, where: tempting fruit, fruit, temptation, hand, poisonous half · 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 (Snowdrop, peasant 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	2 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
6	tempting	tempting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruit	compound
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 eating	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eating	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eating	aux
18	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eating	obj
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 eating	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 resist	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 resist	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 resist	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 resist	advmod
25	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 temptation	det
27	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 resist	obj
28	any	any	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 resist	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 took	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 took	cc
32	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 took	advcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 stretching	compound:prt
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hand	nmod:poss
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stretching	obj
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	nsubj
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 half	det
39	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 half	amod
40	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	37 took	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	past	Snowdrop			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Snowdrop not said here	the tempting fruit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	see	past	SNOWDROP			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	eat	past · progressive	the peasant woman	fruit	woman obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not resist	could	SNOWDROP	the temptation	long property	tree rules
6	stretch out	gerund	SNOWDROP not said here	woman's hand		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
7	take	past	SNOWDROP	the poisonous half		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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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