The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 77
This she said thrice, and the third time that she sent out the dog to see, it was very near dawn.
Who acts: This, maiden, third time · What happens: say, send out, see, be · To what, where: third time, near dawn · 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 (This, maiden, third time), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dawn | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dawn | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dawn | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sent | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sent | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dawn | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dawn | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 near | advmod |
| 22 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dawn | amod |
| 23 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | This | thrice property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send out | past | maiden | the third time | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the third time | near dawn | tree rules |
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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