The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 275
When she had dressed herself very gorgeously for the occasion, she went to the mirror, and said:
Who acts: mother · What happens: dress, go, say · To what, where: mother, mirror · 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 (mother), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | aux |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 dressed | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 gorgeously | advmod |
| 7 | gorgeously | gorgeously | ADV | _ | 4 dressed | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 occasion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 occasion | det |
| 10 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mirror | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mirror | det |
| 16 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · perfect | mother | mother | for the occasion; gorgeously property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | mother | the mirror | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mirror=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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