The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 75
She begged very prettily, and got it, and then she brushed her hair, and the gold dropped from it.
Who acts: maiden, gold · What happens: beg, get, brush, drop · To what, where: brush, 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 (maiden, gold), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 prettily | advmod |
| 4 | prettily | prettily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 begged | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brushed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brushed | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 brushed | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brushed | nsubj |
| 13 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brushed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dropped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dropped | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gold | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dropped | nsubj |
| 20 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dropped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | maiden | prettily property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | maiden not said here | brush | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | brush | past | maiden | maiden's hair | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||
| 4 | drop | past | the gold | brush | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |
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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