The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 281
As she entered Snowdrop recognised her, and nearly fainted with fear; but red-hot iron shoes had been prepared for the wicked old Queen, and she was made to get into them and dance till she fell down dead.
Who acts: woman, Snowdrop · What happens: enter, recognise, faint, prepare, make, get · To what, where: woman, red hot iron shoes
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 (woman, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 recognised | nsubj |
| 5 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognised | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fainted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fainted | cc |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 fainted | advmod |
| 10 | fainted | faint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 recognised | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fainted | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 prepared | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 prepared | cc |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shoes | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 red | punct |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shoes | amod |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shoes | compound |
| 19 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 prepared | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 prepared | aux:pass |
| 22 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Queen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Queen | det |
| 25 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Queen | amod |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Queen | amod |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 prepared | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 get | mark |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 made | xcomp |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 get | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dance | cc |
| 38 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 get | conj |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 fell | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 fell | nsubj |
| 41 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 dance | advcl |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 fell | advmod |
| 43 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fell | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recognise | past | Snowdrop | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | faint | participle | Snowdrop not said here | with fear; nearly property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | red hot iron shoes | for the wicked old Queen | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for queen=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | woman not said here | into shoes = shoe | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into they=Destination | ||||
| 7 | dance | infinitive | woman not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | fall down | past | woman | dead, down 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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